COON RAPIDS, Minn. — Some 150 doctors, including OB-GYNs, psychiatrists and critical care physicians at Allina’s Mercy Hospital here and its Unity campus in Fridley began a four-day strike Sept. 14 after three years of fighting to win their first…
October 1, 2001 Since Sept. 11, Washington has taken the sharpest moves in decades in militarizing the U.S., accelerated the assault on democratic rights and put the military on a war footing in preparation for a brutal assault on the…
Cuba workers act to develop their own energy sources While the U.S. government steadily ratchets up sanctions to bar Cuba from receiving hard currency, oil and other resources, workers on the island are using their creativity and experience to maintain…
Without any fanfare and little media coverage in the big-business press, the Department of Justice issued a press release Sept. 16, “Liability for Unregistered Foreign Agents,” that contains a frontal assault on basic constitutional freedoms, including the rights to free…
A huge glacial avalanche plummeting around a mile vertically down the Himalayas triggered a fast, towering flood that swept through a major river valley formed by the Lhenda Khola, Bhotekoshi and then the Trishuli rivers between Nepal and Tibet Aug.…
For the first time in three years the Federal Reserve raised interest rates this month, claiming this will slow rising prices. This is “bad news for borrowers, good news for savers,” The Associated Press reported. They were obviously happy with…
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Crisscrossing Mississippi, the 1966 March Against Fear grew to the largest ever statewide action against Jim Crow segregation June 26 in Jackson, the capital. Stu Singer, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee volunteer from Boston, who later became a leader of…
SEATTLE — After a hard-fought 85-day strike against Embassy Suites by Hilton here, UNITE HERE Local 8 members ratified a new contract Sept. 10. It was the longest hotel strike in state history, the Seattle Times said. “A win for…
NAZA, filmed in Israel, joins a growing international propaganda barrage spreading false allegations that Israel’s defensive war against Hamas is genocide against the Palestinian people or at the very least deliberate mass murder of innocent civilians. NAZA is getting a…
