Teresa Albano

Teresa Albano was the first woman editor-in-chief of People’s World, 2003-2010, leading the transition from weekly print to daily online publishing and establishing PW’s social media presence. Albano had been a staff writer for People’s World covering political, labor, and social justice issues for more than 25 years. She traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad, including India, Cuba, Angola, Italy, and Paris to cover the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. An award-winning journalist, Albano has been honored for her writing by the International Labor Communications Association, National Federation of Press Women, and Illinois Woman Press Association.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Teresa Albano

U.S.

What’s a downloadable print edition?
November 5, 2009 By Teresa Albano
CHICAGO - As the People's World pushes forward as a daily online website, people have asked, "What about print?"
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U.S.

Cleveland council race features unique candidate
November 3, 2009 By Teresa Albano
CLEVELAND - Volunteers are going house to house in this hard-hit city's West Side, getting out the vote for a candidate who they believe will "shake things up" and bring change to a neighborhood pockmarked with...
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U.S.

Message to banks: ‘Time to bail us out’
October 27, 2009 By Teresa Albano
Sick of profiteering, foreclosures and joblessness, thousands tell banks 'Enough is enough'
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U.S.

First Lady urges women to talk to friends about health care
October 23, 2009 By Teresa Albano
Video: The White House went on the offensive on the health care debate, reaching out to women and mothers with a new video from First Lady Michelle Obama.
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World

Unions to Colombia: Stop murdering labor activists
September 30, 2009 By Teresa Albano
Colombian trade unionists get murdered daily with impunity. Meet a young woman who is trying to stop it.
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U.S.

Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism’ is labor of love for working America
September 18, 2009 By Teresa Albano
On the year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, filmmaker and slacker hero Michael Moore gave a gift to working America: an explanation of what happened.In short: capitalism happened.
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U.S.

A wind farm in Pa. fuels green-collar union jobs
September 15, 2009 By Teresa Albano
EBENSBURG, Pa. -- As the G-20 Summit prepares to open in Pittsburgh Sept. 24 to deal with global capitalism's severe economic crisis, labor journalists from the International Labor Communicators Association visited some 15 area work sites...
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U.S.

Jenny couldn’t wait; vigil demands action on health care
September 10, 2009 By Teresa Albano
CHICAGO -- "Twenty thousand people die each year because they lack health insurance.” That was a grim figure presented by medical student Anthony Chang to a MoveOn.org-hosted health care reform vigil here on Sept. 2.
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