Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Rep. John Conyers: 53 years fighting for peace, justice, equality
October 30, 2019I covered Rep. John Conyers, D., Mich., for the entire 25 years I was the Washington correspondent for the Daily World and People's Daily World.
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“Stand up for this democracy”: My congressman, Elijah Cummings
October 18, 2019I covered Cummings as a correspondent for People's Weekly World in Washington, D.C., and interviewed him more than once.
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Youth lead fight for future at Baltimore Climate Strike
September 23, 2019About 1,000 protesters, mostly high school and college youth, marched from the Inner Harbor to Baltimore City Hall Sept. 20.
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Baltimore crowd celebrates 100 years of the Communist Party USA
September 17, 2019A multi-racial crowd from the mid-Atlantic region celebrated the founding of the CPUSA a century ago, filling a church here with singing, poetry, and calls for the ouster of Trump.
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Ben Riskin, the Communist behind “portal-to-portal” pay
August 20, 2019He fought to win workers pay for the time it takes them to get to and from their job, but corporate-controlled Congressmen took it away.
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Scottsboro and the quiet courage of Mary Licht
August 8, 2019Licht was herself in jail when she learned of the Scottsboro Nine. “I told my co-worker that when we were released," she said, "I would secure the International Labor Defense (ILD) for their case.” She was...
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Answer Trump’s smear of Baltimore by voting him out
August 1, 2019The Baltimore Sun got it right: “Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”
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James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
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