Joelle Fishman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman
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Connecticut labor gears up for big election drive
July 11, 2008HARTFORD, Conn. — Lightening storms may have kept national AFL-CIO President John Sweeney’s plane from landing here in time for the Connecticut AFL-CIO convention June 23, but nothing could stop the delegates’ determination to prepare for...
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Big political shifts are under way
June 24, 2008The yearning in our country for a new direction and new priorities has taken hold in the 2008 elections. Voters turned out in record numbers for the primaries, propelled by economic necessity and determination to end...
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What will it take to bring progressive change?
March 15, 2008“I never looked at the primaries before, but this year they got my notice,” a former factory worker now stuck in a low-wage health care job exclaimed to me recently. She stays glued to the election...
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What will it take to bring progressive change?
March 11, 2008“I never looked at the primaries before, but this year they got my notice,” a former factory worker now stuck in a low-wage health care job exclaimed to me recently. She stays glued to the election...
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New Haven calls for end to Iraq war
January 18, 2008As Congress reconvenes for the new year, the newly elected Board of Aldermen in New Haven joined cities across the country speaking out for peace.
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Si Gerson, 95, journalist and electoral expert
January 28, 2005Simon W. Gerson, veteran journalist and legendary fighter for working class political representation, died on Dec. 26, 2004 in Brooklyn, N.Y., at 95. A member of the national committee of the Communist Party USA, Gerson’s activism...
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Victory at Yale, Hospital next
September 26, 2003 -
Yale workers hold giant rally for union contracts
May 3, 2002