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WaMu’s collapse: The bigger they are, the harder they fall
On Sept. 25, Washington Mutual, the largest savings and loan bank in the United States, was seized by the Federal…
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Capitalist overproduction and the banking crisis
We have won a victory, but Wall Street profiteers and their political representatives have not given up! Demonstrate against their…
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California budget an assault on working people
After the longest-ever budget delay, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a budget containing $10.3 billion in slashed expenditures and $9.6…
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PSL campaign offers support to Chicago flood victims
The author is the PSL candidate for Illinois State Representative in the 40th District, which encompasses some of Albany Park,…
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Chicago outreach effort builds mass opposition to Wall Street bailout
As the Treasury Department threatened to bail out the criminal banks to the tune of $700 billion, PSL members in…
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Homeless activists, supporters launch “Nickelsville” in Seattle
Early in the morning of Sept. 22, homeless activists and their supporters gathered from four different sites in King County,…
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Preventable Ike devastation is a crime!
On Saturday, Sept. 13, Hurricane Ike struck land as a Category 2 storm with 110-mile-per-hour winds. Following shortly after Hurricane…
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Hurricanes and more hurricanes
We all breathed a sigh of relief when Hurricane Gustav diminished in strength and breadth before it hit the Louisiana…
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Disabled activists protest death of nursing home resident
The death of a Chicago South Side nursing home resident provoked a two-fold action by Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs…
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Katrina, the Pain Index
The author is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He can be reached at…
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