Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Port workers spend Labor Day on picket line
September 7, 2011LONGVIEW, Wash. - Embattled dockworkers marched on their picket lines, Labor Day weekend, standing tall against EGT, the international grain consortium that seeks to break the union at their huge new grain terminal in the Port...
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Longshore workers battle union-buster (video)
July 26, 2011EGT, an international consortium in Longview, Wash., is privatizing a public dock, owned by the Port of Longview, and bringing in scab labor to bust the workers' local longshore union.
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1,000 demand “Good Jobs Now” at Progressive Caucus speakout
July 23, 2011SEATTLE - People lined up at microphones at a July 23 "speak out" here to demand that Congress stop kowtowing to the corporations and do what voters elected them to do: create good jobs at a...
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Murdoch hacking scandal crossing the Atlantic
July 20, 2011Sen. John Rockefeller called for a congressional investigation of charges that Rupert Murdoch's journalists attempted to buy 9/11 victims' phone records.
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“Rebuild the Dream”: For Henry Rhodes it’s still out of reach
July 19, 2011In house parties across the nation, 25,000 participants told heartfelt stories of their struggles to make the "American dream" a reality.
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Bachmann and Santorum spark furor over slavery, “family values”
July 14, 2011How much slack are voters likely to cut Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum for signing a racist, gay-bashing "family values" pledge as they pandered to the bigots in their campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination?
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Fair and balanced? Hacking scandal rocks Murdoch media empire
July 12, 2011Billionaire Rupert Murdoch tried to squelch the hacking scandal engulfing his media empire by closing down his British tabloid, News of the World, but the firestorm continues to spread.
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Howly Slim: A high note for Lavender Festival
July 8, 2011Songwriter Howly Slim will be perfoming at the Lavender Festival in Sequim, Wash., and tells of ASCAP and BMI system that has gone "terribly wrong."
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