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

Opinion

Fantastic response to change
July 10, 2009 By Teresa Albano
We have gotten some great responses to the announcement last week that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is publishing daily online.
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U.S.

Change comes to the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo
July 3, 2009 By Teresa Albano
Can you believe it? It still seems like a dream to me. This fighting, working-class newspaper is back to daily publishing! Following in the footsteps of The Daily Worker and all the other great newspapers that...
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Labor

MULTIMEDIA Six years without justice at Congress Hotel
June 16, 2009 By Scott Marshall And Teresa Albano
CHICAGO -- Thousands of union members, their families and supporters marched in solidarity with Unite Here's Congress Hotel workers on the sixth anniversary of the strike, June 15. Gov. Pat Quinn and city aldermen were among...
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Labor

The rumor of card-check death is greatly exaggerated
June 5, 2009 By Teresa Albano
Mark Twain’s famous quote is what Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) paraphrased to thousands of progressive activists at the America’s Future Now conference this week regarding the Employee Free Choice Act.
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U.S.

President Obama nominates first Latina to Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor
May 27, 2009 By Teresa Albano
This morning President Barack Obama nominated New York Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. If approved, Sotomayor would become the first Hispanic to the high court.
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U.S.

ColorOfChange takes on Rush Limbaugh and GOP racism
May 27, 2009 By Teresa Albano
ColorOfChange.org launched a campaign today against Rush Limbaugh and his most flagarant use of racism to date.
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Opinion

What your donation to the People’s Weekly World does
May 22, 2009 By Teresa Albano
It takes money to deliver the kind of working-class oriented news and analysis that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo does.
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World

Pakistans displaced create new crisis
May 20, 2009 By Teresa Albano
In the wake of the Pakistan’s army offensive against the armed Taliban, more than 1 million people have been forced to flee their homes. The Pakistan Peace and Solidarity Council sent out an urgent appeal today...
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