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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Hate groups meet resistance in Milwaukee
December 5, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
MILWAUKEE – White supremacist groups held a march and rally Nov. 23 terminating on the steps of the Federal Courthouse here, drawing 50 to 60 participants and more than a thousand counterdemonstrators. This corresponded with predictions...
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Taxes, taxes, taxes: High on the Bush agenda
December 5, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
It has been written that the more things change, the more they are the same. And that certainly holds true when it comes to battles over taxes. True, the powdered wigs of James Madison’s time are...
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Foreclosures on the rise
November 27, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
One of the several components of the 'American dream' is home ownership – that rent receipts could become receipts for payments on, 'a home for two, out in the blue,' as a popular western song of...
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War protests grow
November 22, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
The threat of war with Iraq brought protests from both sides of the Atlantic last week as a contingent of women announced their intention to conduct a four-month, 24-hour-a-day vigil near the White House, major religious...
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Inspectors in Iraq, Bush still pushes war
November 22, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
Even as UN weapons inspectors deplaned in Baghdad, U.S. officials were charging that Iraq was in “material breech” of UN Res. 1441 requiring it to “reveal and abandon” all weapons of mass destruction.
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AFL-CIO targets Wal-Mart
November 15, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
On Nov. 21, working families in all 50 states will join with community, student, civil rights, environmental and consumer activists for a National Day of Action at Wal-Mart stores. Jill Cashen told the World The Day...
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Harvey Pitt, SEC head, shown the door
November 8, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
Harvey Pitt, the Wall Street yes man whom President Bush had appointed to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was forced to resign on Nov. 5.
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Working families say: Well fight Bush agenda
November 8, 2002 By Fred Gaboury
WASHINGTON – Despite setbacks in the Nov. 5 elections, the AFL-CIO, the National Organization for Women and other grassroots organizations vowed a determined fight to block the Bush administration from railroading its ultra-right agenda through Congress.
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