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Postal workers, customers save Saturday mail – for now
Msnbc.com reports: “The United States Postal Service said Wednesday that it would delay its plan to cease delivery of first-class mail on Saturdays, rescuing for now a service that it says is costly but that many Americans rely on.” The USPS said in a statement that until “legislation is passed that provides the Postal Service […]
- By : Special to People’s World
- April 10, 2013
Marriage equality promises “a more perfect union”
Monumental. That’s how legal experts and human rights activists describe this week’s two cases before the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage. Monumental indeed as the court’s decisions promise to define the nation, which claims the mantle of democracy – based on rights and laws, for generations to come. Are all Americans equal regardless of who […]
- By : PW Editorial
- March 26, 2013
10 years later, Iraq war holds big lessons
Ten years ago today, despite heroic, massive protests by peace forces around the world, President Bush launched a war that defied international and U.S. law; a war based on lies, a war that directly killed nearly 4,500 U.S. troops and at least 121,000 Iraqis, wounded over 33,000 U.S. soldiers and countless Iraqis, and left hundreds […]
- By : PW Editorial
- March 19, 2013
Demand for inquiry into France’s role in assassination of African leader
On February 13, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies tabled a motion to begin a parliamentary investigation of the assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, in 1987. Sankara, who himself took power in a coup d’état in 1983, was a progressive and charismatic leader who is sometimes referred to as […]
- By : Emile Schepers
- February 26, 2013
Today in black history: Actor Sidney Poitier born
Groundbreaking actor Sidney Poitier celebrates his 86th birthday today. Born to Bahamian parents in Miami, Fla., while they were selling produce from their island farm, Poitier began life in humble working-class circumstances, which he never forgot. But through a unique combination of talent, tenacity, intelligence, hard work and a touch of good luck, he is […]
- By : Teresa Albano
- February 20, 2013
Today in labor history: Palmer Raids victims win basic right
Today in labor history, Jan. 16, 1920, thousands of immigrants, arrested during the vicious Palmer Raids, won a basic constitutional right: legal representation. After raids conducted by U.S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer in November 1919 and January 1920, some 16,000 were arrested and most were released. However, at least 3,000 people, mostly immigrants, were […]
- By : Teresa Albano
- January 16, 2013
Despite “right to work,” union organizing not letting up in Michigan
DETROIT – If the Lansing Tea Party Republicans who passed Right-to-Work (for less) legislation last week thought working families were going to be intimidated, they should have witnessed what took place last night at the Cesar Chavez Academy, a large for-profit, K-12 charter school in Southwest Detroit. Despite a cool rain verging on snow, and […]
- By : John Rummel
- December 21, 2012
Guns, profits and Sandy Hook
It took the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Connecticut for the country to – we hope – get serious about regulating guns. That is a huge price to pay. The horrendous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was the 16th mass murder in the United […]
- By : PW Editorial
- December 19, 2012
SOA Watch meets with White House deputy advisor: Lessons learned
WASHINGTON – Denis McDonough, deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, met with a delegation from the SOA Watch movement here Nov. 13. SOA Watch worked hard to meet with McDonough because he is a critical aide to the president and he has a deep Catholic justice background. A grad of College of St. […]
- By : Bill Quigley
- November 15, 2012
Arab world on Patraeus: Lebanese woman brings down CIA
The headlines about the Petraeus affair in the Arab world this morning almost universally read something like “Lebanese woman brings down CIA.” The woman who seems to have destroyed three careers and kicked off the FBI investigation of Gen. David Petraeus, ex-director of the CIA, goes by Jill Kelley. But her maiden name is Gilberte […]