SAN FRANCISCO — More than 500 workers walked off the job at the Marriott Marquis downtown here Nov. 24, bringing to six the number of hotels now on strike. Some 2,500 UNITE HERE Local 2 members are walking the picket…
CHICAGO — Two weeks after two Jewish students at DePaul University were attacked by masked thugs, 50 supporters rallied with the students at the spot of the attack Nov. 21 in front of the student center on the Lincoln Park…
Workers in rail, shipping, public transportation and construction, at hospitals, schools and elsewhere, joined a general strike across Greece Nov. 20 to protest soaring prices, unaffordable rents and low wages. The one-day action was called by a number of unions.…
Thousands of retired teachers, many coming from other cities, joined a march along a busy street in Tehran to Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, Nov. 20, above, demanding an increase in their pensions. It was one of the largest labor protests…
What Is Surrealism? Selected Writings by André Breton is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Breton founded the surrealist movement, an influential current in literature and art, 100 years ago. In 1925, he defended Russian revolutionary leaders…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “I felt, heard and saw this massive plume of yellow smoke and debris go hundreds of feet in the air right outside my window,” Hannah Nitzken told WHAS-TV News, describing the Nov. 12 explosion at the Givaudan…
December 13, 1999 MIAMI — A political debate is taking place here around the future of a five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, who survived a boat smuggling tragedy. U.S. officials have given him residency over the objections of his father…
LOS ANGELES — “Given the events over the last couple days, it is necessary to begin this forum by describing the virulent attack on Jews in Amsterdam Nov. 7, and what it portends,” Norton Sandler, a member of the Socialist…
Israeli blows to Hezbollah in Lebanon have been so devastating that the Jew-hating group — and its backers in Tehran — made it clear Nov. 18 that they are willing to withdraw to some 20 miles north of Israel’s border…
BEVERLY, Mass. — Over 1,400 public school teachers here and in the nearby towns of Gloucester and Marblehead on the North Shore are in their second week of strikes. Members of the Beverly Teachers Association and Union of Gloucester Educators…
