Chicago teachers suspend heroic strike
Sept. 15 rally. Photo: CTU Local 1 On Sept. 18, the Delegates Assembly of the Chicago Teachers Union announced the suspension of the one-week strike. The union membership will vote to ratify the...
View ArticleRacism, schooling gap cut years from life
It doesn’t take a scientific study for people who are poor to know that their lives are very, very difficult. Now a study shows that being less educated, which usually equates to being poorer, is...
View ArticleStudents resist being silent
The May 4th massacre of four unarmed college students at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970 at the height of student resistance to the Vietnam War rocked the country. Ten days later, on May 14,...
View ArticleStudents organize to support Cuban Five
From left, speakers Ike Nahem of July 26 Coalition, Randolph Caar of the Black Students Organization, Venezuelan Ambassador Julio Escalona, Imani Brown, Cuban Ambassador Rodolfo Reyes, and Chicano...
View ArticleOn the picket line
Retired miners fight for health, pension benefits It may have been April 1, but 10,000 United Mine Workers’ retirees and their supporters were not fooling around when they rallied at the Charleston,...
View ArticleStudents rally to save Black Studies
Temple UniversityWW photo: Betsey Piette Philadelphia — For the second time in less than two weeks, African-American professors and students at Temple University staged demonstrations on April 10 to...
View ArticleSupport striking Palermo’s workers
WW newspaper supports strikers, June 1.WW photo: Tommy Cavanaugh Milwaukee — On June 1, striking Palermo’s workers and their allies marched 18 miles from the Palermo’s Pizza factory in Milwaukee to the...
View ArticleStudents fight massive debt
Students are fed promises of a bright future, and expectancy of a higher income upon program completion. However, college graduates in the United States face debt that has now reached a whopping $1.1...
View ArticleStudents occupy university in Mexico City
Photo: Nevin Siders The main campus of the National University of Education Sciences (UPN) in Mexico City has been occupied by students who receive the National Grant for Higher Education (Pronabes)....
View ArticlePublic forum addresses W.Va. chemical spill crisis
Cathy Kunkel, of Energy Efficient WV, speaks at the “Water Unites Us” public forum on Feb. 20 at Marshall University.WW photo: Benji Pyles Huntington, W.Va. — A public forum titled “Water Unites Us” on...
View ArticleAnn Arbor, Mich., students help stop foreclosure
WW photo: David Sole Led by students from the University of Michigan, protesters picketed Dec. 1 at the PNC Bank in Ann Arbor, Mich., demanding that Jerome Jackson’s home not be foreclosed and he be...
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