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New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
LOS ANGELES – An angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village in Southeast Alaska. He has no clue that the playwright has set him up for a moving coming of age story that forces him to come to terms […]
- By : Eric A. Gordon
- March 21, 2016
Holder resigning: Attorney general brought change
WASHINGTON (AP) – Eric Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration’s legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the nation’s first black attorney general. The White House said that President Obama would announce Holder’s departure later […]
- By : Nedra Pickler
- September 25, 2014
Today in Labor History: Emma Goldman, IWW, Wagner Act, strike and lockout
There were at least five major events in the annals of labor history in the U.S. that occurred on June 27. On June 27, 1869 Emma Goldman was born in Lithuania. At the age of 17, she came to the United States. Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women’s equality and […]
- By : Special to People’s World
- June 27, 2014
Chilean deputy Camila Vallejo urges Obama to free Cuban prisoners
Editors’ note: From June 4-11, people around the world will take action on behalf of three Cuban patriots wrongfully imprisoned in the United States. Called “5 Days for the Cuban 5,” the campaign to free the remaining three prisoners is tied to the overall movement to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba. To read more about […]
- By : Camila Vallejo
- June 4, 2014
Minimum wage hike drive moves into high gear
The labor-backed campaign to raise the minimum wage resumed the week of April 13, as the “Raise The Wage” bus headed for more states, while Maryland became the second state to enact a multi-year hike of the wage to $10.10 an hour. The bus will head for Nevada, Nebraska, Ohio, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina and […]
Jobless rate drops slightly in September
WASHINGTON (PAI) – The U.S. unemployment rate dropped 0.1 percent from August to September, to 7.2 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. A separate BLS survey showed businesses claimed to create a net of 148,000 new jobs last month. The partial federal shutdown/lockout sent all of the BLS staff home in the first two […]
Social Security turns 78
On this day in 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, providing, for the first time ever, guaranteed income for retirees and creating a system of unemployment benefits. Ever since then, Wall Street and their politicians have been trying to cut, undermine, demonize and privatize this most successful and cherished government program. […]
- By : Teresa Albano
- August 14, 2013
ALEC: Behind the scene in 2014!
As we deal with a barrage of state-funded legislative battles, such as Voter ID attacks on voting rights, destruction of public education by diverting taxpayer funding to private, for-profit charter schools, abolition of public sector unions, environmental protections and common sense gun laws, etc., it is important that we understand exactly who is behind them. […]
- By : Wally Kaufman
- July 24, 2013
Cuban Five’s Rene Gonzalez freed, push continues
Rene Gonzalez, one of the “Cuban Five” who have been imprisoned in the United States since 1998, is now free and back in Cuba. But the remaining four still have many years in prison ahead of them, unless people of conscience in the United States can make our case to the U.S. public so that […]
- By : Emile Schepers
- May 13, 2013
Senate immigration bill: big advances, real dangers
Last week, the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” in the U.S. Senate finally presented their long awaited immigration reform bill. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S.744) will soon be joined by a bill in the House of Representatives. Now comes the real fight, to pass a bill in each house, […]
- By : Emile Schepers
- April 23, 2013