Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Labor stalwart Irene Hull dies at 98
March 24, 2011Irene Hull, a beloved "tiny dynamo" fighter for trade union rights, world peace, equality, and socialism died on the first day of spring, March 20 in Seattle.
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1,000 in Olympia: Put people first, close tax loopholes
March 21, 2011The legislature is grappling with budget deficits estimated at $5.1 billion, yet ballot initiatives pushed through by Republican extremists last November block every measure to increase revenues.
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Attacks on public workers put women in bulls’-eye
March 16, 2011Women are calling Republican budget cuts and attacks on public employees a double-barreled "war on women."
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Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims
March 15, 2011Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.
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Spokane NAACP leader hails arrest of bomb suspect
March 10, 2011The FBI later announced that it was a highly sophisticated bomb, rigged to be remotely detonated, and designed to inflict maximum casualties.
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Timely reading: “Engels, A Revolutionary Life”
March 4, 2011The book has romance, adventure and a touch of intrigue.
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Pickets in 31 states slam Social Security cuts
March 3, 2011Across the country, people are picketing proposed GOP cuts to Social Security - though the program has never added a cent to the federal budget.
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Cheesehead solidarity: 3,000 jam Wash. state capital
February 28, 2011Roaring solidarity with Wisconsin workers, many in the crowd wore Green Bay Packer "cheesehead" foam hats, symbolizing how the "Cheddar Revolution" has spread nationwide from America's Dairyland.
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