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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They had no turkey for Thanksgiving
November 22, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
When I talked to her the Monday before Thanksgiving, Carolina Morales was standing in line at the food pantry run by St. Maurice Catholic Church in Chicago’s Southwest side. She had come to pick up sacks...
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More women lack health insurance
November 17, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
A report issued by The Commonwealth Fund on Aug. 30 says the number of uninsured women between the ages of 18 and 64 grew three times faster than the number of uninsured men.
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Stimulus package: Workers needs at risk
November 17, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
The battle over who gets and who doesn’t from an economic stimulus package is now underway in the Senate as a coalition of labor, civil rights and other community organizations mobilized to prevent Congress from passing...
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International Criminal Court: a better way
November 10, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
From Biblical times to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, men and women have dreamed and worked for a world free from war. So far they haven’t done too well.
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Unemployment jumps
November 10, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
Although the Labor Department’s latest employment report, released Nov. 2, didn’t rattle the stock market, it did show that another 415,000 men and women lost their jobs in October, bringing the official count of the unemployed...
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APHA condemns war
November 10, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
In a strongly-worded resolution titled “Opposing war in southwest Asia,” the annual meeting of the 50,000-member American Public Health Association (APHA) expressed its opposition to “military actions against Afghanistan and other nations,” and called such action...
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Wall Street’s patriotism?
November 3, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
The attack on the World Trade Center evoked a spontaneous display of solidarity from the U.S. working class.
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Santa Claus came to town for the rich
November 3, 2001 By Fred Gaboury
Santa Claus made a pre-Christmas visit on Oct. 24, showering billions of dollars in tax breaks on the rich and shelling out more billions as outright gifts to some of America's richest corporations.
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