Fred Gaboury

Fred Gaboury was a member of the Editorial Board of the print edition of People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo and wrote frequently on economic, labor and political issues. Gaboury died in 2004. Here is a small selection of Fred’s significant writings: Eight days in May Birmingham and the struggle for civil rights; Remembering the Rev. James Orange; Memphis 1968: We remember; June 19, 1953: The murder of the Rosenbergs; World Bank and International Monetary Fund strangle economies of Third World countries

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Senate debate on ANWR set
April 5, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
Legislation authorizing drilling for oil in the Alaska Natural Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) will top the Senate calendar when Congress returns from its Easter vacation on April 15. The Republican-controlled House passed its version of a national...
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Documents show corporate collusion on energy
April 5, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
After 11 months of stalling, the Energy Department grudgingly agreed to a court order and on March 26 released 11,000 pages of documents showing collusion between the nation’s energy conglomerates and the White House in the...
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Social Security: Whered the surplus go?
April 5, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
The 2002 Report of the Social Security Trustees, released on March 26, provides valuable ammunition for those concerned about the future of Social Security.
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Of rags and bushes
March 29, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
When I worked in Washington State’s tall and uncut on the foot hills of Mt. Rainier we had a saying for the unbelievable or outlandish: “That takes the rag off the bush,” we would say, expecting...
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Another right wing group
March 29, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT), a newly founded neo-conservative organization headed by William Bennett, has launched a full-blown public relations campaign meant to silence critics of President George W. Bush’s war on terrorism.
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Enron: Feeding at the public trough
March 29, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
Tim Wheeler’s ongoing expose of the incestuous relationship between Ken Lay and President George Bush goes far in exposing the greed of Enron officials who were among the main beneficiaries of the stock market boom of...
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Lockheed strike in Georgia holding firm
March 29, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
“We’re hanging tough,” Bob Wood, communications director for Machinists Local 709, whose members went on strike against Lockheed-Martin on March 11 told the World when reached at his office in Marietta, Georgia. The decision to strike...
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Steel union takes Colombia death squads to court
March 29, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) and the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) have filed a federal lawsuit charging the U. S.-owned Drummond Company with complicity in the assassinations of Valmore Lacareno, Victor Orcasita and Gustavo...
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