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Chicago teachers step up resistance to school closings

Eric Struch — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:19:49 +0000

Chicago school teachers held a large rally on May 20 that focused on resisting attempts to shut down as many as 54 public schools, most in oppressed Black and Latino/a neighborhoods. The right-wing, anti-people, anti-Black administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been waging a war against public education. City Hall and the heads of [...]

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No justice for Ramarley Graham

Stephen Millies — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:02:51 +0000

Ramarley Graham was shot in his bathroom by police officer Richard Haste. The unarmed Bronx teenager was killed on Feb. 2, 2012, in front of his grandmother and six-year-old brother. Graham’s family had to endure more grief on May 15 when Judge Steven L. Barrett threw out Haste’s indictment for manslaughter. Barrett claims the grand [...]

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Malcolm X lives

Monica Moorehead — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:49:50 +0000

The great Black leader, Malcolm X —also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — was born on May 19, 1925. His birth name was Malcolm Little. As a child, he experienced the horrors of racism growing up in Lansing, Mich., where his father, Earl Little, was lynched when Malcolm was six years old. When Malcolm told [...]

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Houston protest supports Assata Shakur

Gloria Rubac — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:44:43 +0000

Militant supporters of former political prisoner Assata Shakur, who was liberated from a U.S. federal prison and has lived in Cuba since 1984, gathered at Houston’s federal building on May 14 to let the U.S. government know that the reprehensible $2 million bounty put on this revolutionary sister is a travesty. The protest was organized [...]

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Paul Ryan, ALEC protested

Workers World staff — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:18:18 +0000

Two of the greatest enemies of working people were confronted in Kansas and Oklahoma over the past two weeks. On May 2, hundreds of poor and working people came out to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council’s national conference in Oklahoma City. ALEC is a right-wing organization that writes boilerplate racist, anti-worker, anti-community legislation that [...]

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IRS: the real scandal

Editor — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:13:06 +0000

Republican politicians and reactionary media outlets have joined the ultrarightist Tea Party types in an all-out attack on the Internal Revenue Service and, by extension, on the Barack Obama administration. Instead of meeting this unwarranted and unsubstantiated attack head-on the way it deserves, the Democrats have caved in, forcing the IRS to apologize to the [...]

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‘Pathways’ program to gut City University of New York

Heather Cottin — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:33 +0000

New York — A cabal of bourgeois higher education policy wonks, media moguls and bankers have devised a scheme that undermines the academic foundation of the 166-year-old City University of New York. CUNY is the largest urban university in the United States and provides education to more than half a million students on 24 campuses. [...]

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Thousands walk out in Philadelphia: ’Save our schools!’

Betsey Piette — Thu, 23 May 2013 03:09:14 +0000

Philadelphia — For the third time in ten days, students walked out of classrooms here on May 17 to protest the proposed elimination of all extracurricular programs in the city’s public schools. Thousands of students from 27 high schools and middle schools took to the streets, chanting, “No ifs, no buts, no education cuts” and [...]

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Cooper Union students seize president’s office

Caleb T. Maupin — Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00:43 +0000

May 20 — The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Society and Art is a New York City college that has long been associated with progressive politics and activism. The college was a center of the abolitionist movement, and Abraham Lincoln gave a historic anti-slavery address there in 1860. In more recent times, Latin American [...]

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A brief history of ‘marriage’

Bob McCubbin — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:55:01 +0000

Part 1: Two schools of thought lock horns Supreme Court decisions are expected sometime in June on the constitutionality of California’s Prop 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage, and the federal so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,” which discriminates against same-sex married couples in the administration of more than 1,000 federal programs. However, it is a foregone [...]

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