Pepe Lozano

Chicagoan Pepe Lozano was a staff writer with the People's World through 2014. He comes from an activist family and has lived on the city's southwest side in a predominantly Mexican-American community his whole life. Lozano now works as a union organizer.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Pepe Lozano

U.S.

Thousands rally against Alabama’s immigration law
November 23, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
In a united effort to repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law, Black, white and Latino members of Congress, faith, labor, community and civil rights leaders kicked off a state and national campaign Nov. 21 in Birmingham.
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U.S.

Black labor leaders: Alabama’s immigration fight ground zero for civil rights
November 18, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
African American, civil rights and labor leaders visited Birmingham this week to see first hand how the state's new anti-immigrant law is impacting Latinos.
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Labor

Commissioner Stern: NBA headed toward “nuclear winter”
November 17, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
The players say they made several economic concessions and had no choice but to disband the union and seek legal redress.
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U.S.

Evangelicals: Alabama’s immigration law is anti-Christian, anti-American
November 16, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
National evangelical leaders who recently visited Alabama as part of an "emergency delegation" are denouncing the state's new anti-immigrant law.
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U.S.

Were college football profits protected at the expense of sexually abused children?
November 10, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
There is no escaping the charges Joe Paterno, his staff and his superiors including the entire Penn State University Board of Trustees should face.
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U.S.

Russell Pearce defeated, wake up call for anti-immigrant lawmakers
November 9, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
The powerful Republican state senator who authored Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant bill SB 1070, became the first sitting lawmaker in Arizona history to lose his seat in a recall election.
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U.S.

What happens to children after parents are detained and deported?
November 4, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
You're put in a detention center hundreds of miles away with absolutely no right to see your kids for months, sometimes years.
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U.S.

Bank of America yields to consumer outrage over $5 fee
November 2, 2011 By Pepe Lozano
"It was a classic David-and-Goliath fight, fueled by the growing populist outrage against the nation's financial system."
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