Tuesday June 18, 2013
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People's Struggles

Second Colombian Revolutionary Kidnapped by U.S.
Mick Kelly | United States | 3/10/05
Commander Sonia, a leader of the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) was extradited to the United States on March 9.
Commander Sonia, FARC-EP, National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera
FARC Says Palmera Must Be Released
Mick Kelly | United States | 3/10/05
In a statement issued Feb. 27, Colombia’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), said that extradition of an important...
FARC-EP, National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, Ricardo Palmera
March 8: Celebrate International Women’s Day 2005
Freedom Road Socialist Organization | United States | 3/01/05
March 8, 2005 will be the 95th year that International Women’s Day has been celebrated worldwide since Clara Zetkin, a German revolutionary, proposed it...
Clara Zetkin, Communist holiday
More Resistance, Occupation Unraveling
Arthur Henson | Iraq | 3/01/05
Insurgents are continuing to mount attacks across Iraq, targeting oil pipelines, military installations and U.S. troops, along with American-trained Iraqi...
Iraq War, Iraqi resistance
Teamster Reformer Fired by University of Chicago
staff | Chicago, IL | 2/24/05
Students, community activists, members of SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Local 73, the Illinois Nurses Association and the Teamsters Local...
New leadership slate, Richard Berg, SEIU Local 73, Teamsters Local 743
Protests Slam Fake Iraq Elections
staff | Minneapolis, MN | 2/21/05
About 100 people demonstrated here Jan. 29 to oppose the occupation and fake elections in Iraq.
Anti-War Committee, Anti-War Organizing League, Iraq War
U of MN Workers Demand Return of $6 Million in Health Care Costs
Brad Sigal | Minnesota | 2/16/05
Workers at the University of Minnesota are being ripped off. The administration is stealing $6 million from us and we want it back," said Kelly Ryan...
AFSCME Local 3800
Newark Killer Cops Strike Second Time
Arthur Henson | Newark, NJ | 2/09/05
Rasheed Fuquan Moore, 26, was killed Jan. 24 by Newark police officer Thomas Ruane in a 12:30 a.m. shooting incident. In the same incident, Ruane’s...
Elizabeth Moore, Lawrence Hamm, Michael Newkirk, officer Nicholas Popolizio, People’s Organization for Progress, police violence on African-American, POP, Rasheed Fuquan Moore, Richard Guy
Committee to Free Jailed FARC Leader is Formed
Mick Kelly | Chicago, IL | 2/02/05
"It's a crime that the U.S. government has jailed a man who has dedicated his entire life to fighting for the liberation of the Colombian people...
FARC-EP, National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, Ricardo Palmera
Stop Attacks on Social Security
Adam Price | United States | 2/01/05
George Bush is trying to scare the American people into privatizing Social Security by claiming that there will be a crisis 40 years from now.
Argentina, britain, privatization, Social Security