Rosita Johnson

LATEST ARTICLES BY Rosita Johnson

• Labor

  

  “No contract, no work,” says Philadelphia transport union

  October 30, 2009 By Rosita Johnson

  Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 has voted to authorized a strike at the end of this week, if continuing negotiations do not result in a contract by October 31

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• U.S.

  

  Closed! Pools, libraries placed on budget chopping block

  May 26, 2009 By Rosita Johnson

  PHILADELPHIA -- Protesters rallied outside of the City Council here where the city’s $3.8 billion budget passed unanimously on May 21.

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• Opinion

  

  No Child Left Behinds reading program marked failure

  May 13, 2008 By Rosita Johnson
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• PrintEditions

  

  National dialogue needed on our overflowing jails

  March 15, 2008 By Rosita Johnson
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• PrintEditions

  

  National dialogue needed on our overflowing jails

  March 11, 2008 By Rosita Johnson
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• News

  

  Social justice at stake in Mumia Abu-Jamal case

  May 4, 2007 By Rosita Johnson
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• U.S.

  

  U.S. ranks at bottom for child welfare

  March 2, 2007 By Rosita Johnson And Teresa Albano

  It’s hard to be a child, but harder if you grow up in the United States, according to a recent United Nations report. Despite claims by “free market” braggarts that unfettered capitalism is the pinnacle of...

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• U.S.

  

  African Americans have a stake in immigrant rights

  April 21, 2006 By Rosita Johnson
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