Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Invisible giants honored in Selma
March 11, 2005SELMA, Ala. — They were “invisible giants,” women and men who served as foot-soldiers of the struggle for voting rights.
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RENEW VOTING RIGHTS!
March 11, 200540 years after Bloody Sunday, 10,000 march in Selma SELMA, Ala. — Singing “Ain’t going to let nobody turn me round,” 10,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge here March 6 to protest Bush-Cheney voter suppression...
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Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds
March 4, 2005Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. The names of the three civil rights martyrs still ring like a bell four decades after they disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 21, 1964. Their deaths, together with the violence inflicted...
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40 years after Selma’s Bloody Sunday
January 14, 2005The struggle for voting rights continues Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) defended the legacy of martyrs who died for voting rights when they blocked, for a few hours,...
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Pete Seeger: Standing Tall at 85
December 17, 2004'Seeger understood early the power of song as a force for social change.' Pete Seeger turned 85 last May 3 and could be forgiven if he hung up his five-string banjo and relaxed with his wife...
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Fred Gaboury, dean of labor writers, 78
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We Charge Genocide: The cry rings true 52 years later
February 21, 2003Paul Robeson and William L. Patterson, two giants of the struggle for African-American equality, delivered to the United Nations a petition titled “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.”
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Poison gas: Made in U.S.A
August 23, 2002As George W. Bush’s administration continues their reckless path towards war with Iraq, splits are occurring in the ruling class as world and national opposition grows.
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