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Peoples Weekly World

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"America's best labor newspaper"
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The People’s Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo is a national, grassroots weekly newspaper and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. Published by Long View Publishing Co., the PWW reports on and analyzes the pressing issues and struggles of the day: for workers’ rights, peace, equality, social and economic justice, democracy, civil liberties, women’s rights, protection of the environment, and more.The PWW is known for its partisan coverage. We take sides — for truth and justice. We are partisan to the working class, racially and nationally oppressed peoples, women, youth, seniors, international solidarity, Marxism and socialism. We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views.Since the first issue of the Daily Worker came off the press in 1924, our press has been in the battles of the U.S. working class and people’s movements. From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s and ‘70s to the struggles that have given us the "new" labor movement, and now the growing movement for peace and defeating the ultra-right and Bush agenda — we’ve been there.The PWW is part of the independent and free press tradition in the U.S. We are funded exclusively by our subscribers and supporters — no corporate money. With a small staff and a network of volunteers, we are proud to put out what many call “the best labor newspaper in the country.”
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My Interests

Our main interest is covering the news, and at the same time being an agent of change. We want our newspaper to be read for real information--not the lies spoonfed by the corporate media--and then used to help build that mass movement for peace, democracy, equality and socialism.
We want to be a tool used in defeating the extremist ultra-right in the 2008 Presidential Elections.
We are interested in doing more: We want to add more pages. We want more color. We want to send more reporters to cover news on scene: We did that in the aftermath of Katrina, at the World Festival of Youth and Students, at the United Nations, in China and Vietnam, in Europe--but we want to do more.
But to do all this, it takes money.
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I'd like to meet:

People like you! Anyone interested in the issues we cover: Labor rights, civil rights, equality, immigrant rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, equality, democracy, socialism. We want to hear from free thinkers, those who question, people who believe in alternatives, science minded, activists, union members, artists, students, environmentialists, concerned about the planet.

Heroes:

John Reed (our first editor), Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, Abraham Lincoln, V.I. Lenin (who argued that a paper like the PWW is necessary), Clara Zetkin, Karl Marx, Frederich Douglass, Ben Davis, Pete Caccione, Rosa Parks, Jose Marti, Eugene Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Joe Hill, WEB Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, the Dixie Chicks, Fidel Castro, Pete Seeger.
Our heroes are the thousands and millions of people--most of whom are not famous--who are working to create the better world that is both possible and necessary.

My Blog

Katrina survivors march for justice

By Tim Wheeler NEW ORLEANS  Undaunted by a tropical downpour, Hurricane Katrina survivors rallied in the Lower Ninth Ward and marched across the Claiborne Street bridge, Aug. 29, chanting, "Justice &...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:20:00 PST

Labor launches drive for universal healthcare by 2009

High-quality health care for all Americans moved closer to reality this Labor Day with the 13-million-member AFL-CIO unveiling a major drive to achieve universal health care by 2009. "The out-of-contr...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:19:00 PST

Fury and grief in Utah mining town

By John Wojcik The same day that Jocka Jones laid to rest her brother, who was killed trying to rescue six trapped Utah miners, officials of the Crandall Canyon Mine said it would soon be back in busi...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:13:00 PST

On second anniversary of Katrina, Gulf needs a ’New Deal’

By Morgan P. Wheeler Eyewitness account NEW ORLEANS  Two years after his wife was swept away by Hurricane Katrina, Calvin Bernard still comes to sweep the slab and water the flowers where their house...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:12:00 PST

Surge a failure, lawmaker charges

By Dan Margolis It looks as though the administration will use a September report by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, to paint a rosy picture of the situation there. Elected lead...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:21:00 PST

Mortgage crisis stoked by "incredible greed"

By Susan Webb Baton Rouge, La., Kansas City, Mo., and Bethlehem, Pa., are far from Wall Street, but they are among the ground zeros in the financial crisis now grabbing headlines. It's a crisis caused...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:20:00 PST

"Bridges Not Bombs!"

By Tim Wheeler ..> Steve Share/Minneapolis Labor Review ..>Steve Share, editor of the Minneapolis Labor Review, was in his office the evening of Aug. 1 when he heard the sirens wailing, a din ...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:55:00 PST

Working families challenge candidates: "What will you do to change things?"

By John Wojcik CHICAGO  They came to Soldier Field, not to cheer for the hometown Bears, but to challenge presidential candidates to represent the rainbow of working people on Main Street, not Wall S...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:52:00 PST

Demons of racism roam free: The case of the Jena 6

By Bill Quigley In a small still mostly segregated section of rural Louisiana, an all-white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by a white prosecutor testify in a courtroom overseen by a whi...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:01:00 PST

White House panics as GOPers jump ship on Iraq

By Tim Wheeler, www.pww.org WASHINGTON  Lawmakers returned to the capital from a July 4th recess with their constituents' urgent demands for an end to the Iraq war still ringing in their ears. The pr...
Posted by Peoples Weekly World on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:00:00 PST