Mark Simpson
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Simpson
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Opinion
Reader voices: City workers have HOPE on their side
September 5, 2012HOPE met to discuss the coming class battle over pension funds. This is the same struggle seen in Wisconsin and all over the country.
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Opinion
Janitors strike rocks Houston, forces employers to talk
August 6, 2012Janitors here won a historic victory this past week as the contractors were forced to begin negotiations with the Service Employees International Union.
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Labor
Houston church, NAACP support striking janitors
July 31, 2012Ada Edwards, a former Houston city councilor, spoke along with the pastor at St. John's Methodist Church. When you win, we all win, she told the hundreds of workers at the rally.
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Opinion
Houston celebrates birth of The Liberator – Simon Bolivar
July 27, 2012Almost 200 progressives here celebrated South American liberator Simon Bolivar's birthday, July 24.
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