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  John Wojcik · [email protected]
April 20, 2021 at 10:34 AM

Women Fight Covid Economy Town Hall

- Dear John, - The recession caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic and aggravated by corporate-centered policies has been especially devastating for women workers, particularly women of color.  Women have lost jobs, income, and saving…
  John, Chauncey, CJ · [email protected]
March 19, 2021 at 6:30 PM

You shattered the goal! So we raised it to $75,000!

- Dear John, - We hope this letter finds you well amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Each of us knows someone, perhaps a loved one, who has gotten sick or died. We mourn this tragic loss of life, pain, and grief, much of it avoidable. - We’re…
  John, Chauncey, CJ · [email protected]
March 15, 2021 at 9:03 PM

You shattered our goal! We raised it to $75,000!

- Dear John, - We hope this letter finds you well amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Each of us knows someone, perhaps a loved one, who has gotten sick or died. We mourn this tragic loss of life, pain, and grief, much of it avoidable. - We’re…
  Paul Buhle · [email protected]
March 11, 2021 at 7:56 PM

People's World and the legacy of radical journalism

- Dear John, - Today’s People’s World bears the legacy of American socialist and communist newspapers going back to the 1880s. Around those papers, their editors, writers, cartoonists, and other staff, centered communities of working-class sup…
  Tim Wheeler · [email protected]
February 22, 2021 at 6:48 PM

I will match your donation to People's World!

Dear John,   I recently posted on social media Marilyn Bechtel’s story in People’s World headlined, “U.S. and Russia Extend New START Nuclear Treaty for Five Years.” Bechtel’s article was the first I read about this hugely significant…
  Tim Wheeler · [email protected]
February 19, 2021 at 3:02 PM

Will you match my challenge for People's World?

Dear John,   I recently posted on social media Marilyn Bechtel’s story in People’s World headlined, “U.S. and Russia Extend New START Nuclear Treaty for Five Years.” Bechtel’s article was the first I read about this hugely significant…
  John Bachtell · [email protected]
February 9, 2021 at 9:45 PM

Help wanted

Dear John,   Some 91 people signed up for phone banking last week and 24 made calls.  Can you help us increase those numbers?  We're continuing the phone bank this week starting tonight through Saturday.  The recommended times are…
  John Bachtell · [email protected]
February 8, 2021 at 7:22 PM

Urgent: 100 days to make a difference

Dear John,   What a difference an election makes! Thank you for everything you did to make that historic victory and the election victory in Georgia possible.   The Biden-Harris administration and its allies in Congress spurre…
  John Bachtell · [email protected]
February 5, 2021 at 9:48 PM

How $100 can save the world

Dear John,   What a difference an election makes! Thank you for everything you did to make that historic victory and the election victory in Georgia possible.   The Biden-Harris administration and its allies in Congress spurre…
  John Wojcik · [email protected]
February 2, 2021 at 4:17 PM

Don't miss it: tonight

Dear John,    Join us for "100 Days for a Better World," a Town Hall meeting tonight, at 8 pm Eastern, 7:00 Central and 5:00 Pacific.   The GOP is trying to block each and every initiative to defend…
  John Wojcik · [email protected]
January 31, 2021 at 5:16 PM

100 days of struggle

Dear John,    Join us for "100 Days for a Better World," a Town Hall meeting on February 2, at 8 pm Eastern, 7:00 Central and 5:00 Pacific.   The GOP is trying to block each and every initiative to …
  John Wojcik · [email protected]
January 30, 2021 at 5:35 PM

Help needed

Dear John,    Just at the moment when working-class news and analysis is urgently needed, the pandemic economic crisis has hit People’s World – and hit it hard.   With a loss of half its revenue, Pe…
  John Wojcik · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 2:34 AM

Save People's World

Dear John,    Just at the moment when working-class news and analysis is urgently needed, the pandemic economic crisis has hit People’s World – and hit it hard.   With a loss of half its revenue, Pe…
  John, Chauncey, CJ · [email protected]
December 31, 2020 at 10:02 PM

People's World - the gift that keeps on giving!

Dear John,   As if Donald Trump and his postmaster general Louis DeJoy’s sabotage of mail-in ballots didn’t already do enough to try to ruin the election, fresh mail delays are now threatening the holidays as well!   Thanks to the totally mismana…
  John, Chauncey, CJ · [email protected]
December 23, 2020 at 11:00 PM

People's World - the gift with no shipping or waiting

Dear John,   As if Donald Trump and his postmaster general Louis DeJoy’s sabotage of mail-in ballots didn’t already do enough to try to ruin the election, fresh mail delays are now threatening the holidays as well!   Thanks to the totally mismana…
  People's World · [email protected]
December 5, 2020 at 9:28 PM

Unity needed in coming fights against GOP obstruction

Unity needed in coming fights against GOP obstruction By John Bachtell As a nation, we’ve arrived at what some call an “inflection” point. We face immense, overlapping, and intersecting economic, social, and inequality crises, as well as a climate …
  People's World · [email protected]
December 4, 2020 at 6:19 PM

Trump saddles new Biden admin with anti-labor rules

Trump solidifies anti-labor rules that will continue post-inauguration By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—The anti-worker so-called National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund—the lawsuit arm of the vicious and venal “right to work” crowd—has seized upon a…
  People's World · [email protected]
December 2, 2020 at 6:01 PM

Communist teacher turned health minister leads covid fight in India

Communist teacher turned health minister leads pandemic fight in India By Bea Lumpkin “How Communist Physics Teacher Flattens COVID-19 Curve in Southern India,” a headline in the online Science News, caught my eye. That was a contrast to the tragic …
  CJ Atkins · [email protected]
December 1, 2020 at 8:16 PM

#GivingTuesday - Support People's World and truthtelling!

Dear John,   Election 2020 has turned out to be a massive people’s victory. Trump and the extreme right tried everything—massive disinformation, sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service, purging Black voters from the rolls, mobilizing white supremacists,…
  People's World · [email protected]
December 1, 2020 at 7:12 PM

Justices skeptical of Trump demand to delete undocumented from census

Justices skeptical of Trump demand to delete undocumented from census By Mark Gruenberg In almost the last gasp of his racist anti-immigrant campaign during his Oval Office tenure, Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 30 not to count ev…
  People's World · [email protected]
November 30, 2020 at 7:53 PM

UAW official's inside view of GOP's Michigan election scheme

UAW official's insider view of GOP's Michigan election scheme By Mark Gruenberg There was vote-counting chaos in Michigan thanks to GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump, and top Auto Workers official Allen Wilson, assistant to union President Rory…
  Mark Gruenberg · [email protected]
November 23, 2020 at 5:58 PM

People's World takes sides - yours

Dear John,   First things first…THANK YOU!   Thank you for reading People’s World and the news we bring you from a worker’s point of view. Thank you for reading People’s World to find information and analysis the mainstream media doesn’t cover. …
  Barbara Russum · [email protected]
November 22, 2020 at 3:02 PM

People's World is always there with the real news

Dear John,   I first encountered the Daily World at a rally to free Angela Davis in 1971. An elderly Black gentleman wearing a suit and tie offered me a paper and we chatted a while. I worked in the Chicago loop and happened upon the rally. Other…
  John Bachtell · [email protected]
November 21, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Trump won?

Dear John,   Trump won.   That’s what 50% of Republican voters say. They believe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stole the election with massive vote fraud and mysterious ballot dumps.   They believe this despite no evidence, a record presidential vo…
  Barbara Russom · [email protected]
November 20, 2020 at 4:21 PM

People's World is always there with the real news

Dear John,   I first encountered the Daily World at a rally to free Angela Davis in 1971. An elderly Black gentleman wearing a suit and tie offered me a paper and we chatted a while. I worked in the Chicago loop and happened upon the rally. Other…
  Joe Sims · [email protected]
November 19, 2020 at 8:42 PM

Fight 'truth decay' with People's World!

Dear John,   There’s a lot of talk arising from Barack Obama’s recent 60 Minutes interview about what he called "truth decay." The former president referred to Trump and his movement's incessant lying, including about the election results.   “Our …
  John Wojcik · [email protected]
November 18, 2020 at 9:52 PM

People's World is always there!

When Mississippi tried to silence Black mayor, People’s World was there Dear John,   As a young reporter back in the early 1980s, I stayed for weeks at a time in the Mississippi Delta covering the story of the first African-American mayor elected…
  Chauncey Robinson · [email protected]
November 17, 2020 at 9:31 PM

Help People's World continue championing working people's stories

Dear John,   Battles have been won, but the work still continues. This year has not been an easy one for working people. Our collective story has been one where struggle is prominent as we try to make sense of the tragedies that have come our way t…
  People's World · [email protected]
November 16, 2020 at 12:22 AM

Support great journalism in the fight ahead!

  November 15, 2020 - Dear John, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the American people have won a historic victory by ousting the white supremacist and fascist in the White House. The transition is on, despite Trump’s …
  Joe · [email protected]
November 3, 2020 at 1:38 PM

Watch Election Blowout

Dear John, Election Day is here and it will be historic, regardless of the outcome: On top of the 96+ million people who voted early, millions more will be flooding the polls in what is turning out to be a voters’ uprising.  …
  Joe · [email protected]
November 2, 2020 at 9:08 PM

Election night watch party!

Dear John, Election Day will be historic, regardless of the outcome: On top of the 96+ million people who voted early, millions more will be flooding the polls in what is turning out to be a voters’ uprising.   The People’s W…
  Joe · [email protected]
October 24, 2020 at 2:16 PM

Unity meet sign up

Dear John, Early voting is off the hook! It's clear we're in the middle of a mass peoples electoral uprising!! Already it's projected that this will be the largest voter turnout since 1906! Want to find out how…
  Joe · [email protected]
October 22, 2020 at 12:23 PM

Election uprising

Dear John, Early voting is off the hook! It's clear we're in the middle of a mass peoples electoral uprising!! Already it's projected that this will be the largest voter turnout since 1906! Want to find out how…
  Joe · [email protected]
October 20, 2020 at 2:59 PM

Last push Town Hall

Dear John, Join us Sunday, Oct. 25, for a People’s World election event: The People Have the Power: A Voter Town Hall   We’re now in the home stretch, the last big push before the election, but we can’t let up for a minu…
  peoplesworld.org · [email protected]
October 15, 2020 at 10:44 AM

Organize the Vote Town Hall

Dear John, Join us at The People Have the Power: A Voter Town Hall for a last push on the election. Issues like COVID-19, the Heroes Act, climate change, jobs and many others will be addressed. The event will be streamed on Zoom. …
  People's World · [email protected]
September 11, 2020 at 10:56 PM

Nearly two decades after 9/11, military-industrial complex is stronger than ever

Nearly two decades after 9/11, military-industrial complex is stronger than ever By C.J. Atkins It has been almost 20 years since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed another into a field …
  People's World · [email protected]
September 10, 2020 at 12:08 AM

Trump's rush for a vaccine endangers the nation's health

Trump’s rush for a vaccine endangers the nation’s health By John Wojcik The Trump administration admits it is aiming for a vaccine for COVID-19 before Election Day and that the public will joyfully rise up to reward him with a second term in the Whi…
  People's World · [email protected]
September 8, 2020 at 8:33 PM

Biden to workers: 'Wall Street didn't build this country. You did.'

Biden to workers: ‘Wall Street didn’t build this country. You did.’ By Mark Gruenberg HARRISBURG, Pa.—With AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka beaming while looking on, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden used a Labor Day joint Zoom appearance to…
  People's World · [email protected]
September 4, 2020 at 4:47 PM

This Labor Day, numbers tell why we must dump Trump

This Labor Day, numbers tell why we must dump Trump By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik Workers, their unions, their allies, and all progressive forces have much at stake in the elections that are less than two months away. Not since the Great Depress…
  People's World · [email protected]
September 3, 2020 at 8:41 PM

Barber: Rising poverty endangers the whole country

Barber: Rising poverty endangers the whole country By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Using the phrases of the nation’s founders, the Rev. William Barber II is warning that rising poverty in the U.S. endangers the whole country. “You cannot have domestic …
  People's World · [email protected]
September 1, 2020 at 11:16 PM

Don't ignore Trump fanning the flames of QAnon conspiracy theories

Don’t ignore Trump fanning the flames of QAnon conspiracy theories By Chauncey K. Robinson President Donald Trump and other GOP members are publicly legitimizing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory group that has sparked violence in the past. They hav…
  People's World · [email protected]
August 31, 2020 at 9:45 PM

Black police victims' relatives urge action at mass march in D.C.

Black police victims’ relatives urge action at mass march in D.C. By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—One by one, they strode up to the podium on a hot and humid day in D.C.: Relatives or survivors of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brow…
  People's World · [email protected]
August 28, 2020 at 5:42 PM

Trump's message to white supremacists: It's OK to gun down protesters

Trump’s message to white supremacists: It’s OK to gun down protesters By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—One of Donald Trump’s “very fine people,” Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old who news reports said “admires the police,” was arrested August 26 for gunni…
  People's World · [email protected]
August 26, 2020 at 10:18 PM

GOP 'platform': Almost nothing for workers

GOP ‘platform’: Almost nothing for workers By Mark Gruenberg CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The Republican Party’s 2020 “platform” has almost nothing for workers. Technically, there’s not a platform at all and the only thing workers need, according to the GOP, is …
  People's World · [email protected]
August 25, 2020 at 7:54 PM

Surviving at the crossroads of economic and racial intersectionality: Monique

Surviving at the crossroads of economic and racial intersectionality: Monique By Al Neal ST. LOUIS — We are now talking about the closing of summer here in St. Louis. For many, the thermometer’s gradual shift to cooler temperatures leads to cooler h…
  People's World · [email protected]
August 21, 2020 at 10:31 PM

Biden: "I will be an ally of light, not darkness"

Biden: “I will be an ally of light, not darkness” By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik WILMINGTON, Del.—Asking the country to “choose hope over fear,” former Vice President Joe Biden formally accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination on T…
  People's World · [email protected]
August 20, 2020 at 8:03 PM

Prominent left veterans say vote Biden-Harris, then keep organizing

Prominent left veterans say vote Biden-Harris, then keep organizing By John Bachtell Alarm over the prospect of a second Trump presidency and desire for substantial change is preparing the ground for an unprecedented voter turnout in November. The v…
  People's World · [email protected]
August 20, 2020 at 7:09 PM

Obama warns: Re-elect Trump and U.S. democracy dies

Obama warns: Re-elect Trump and U.S. democracy dies By Mark Gruenberg PHILADELPHIA — Re-elect Donald Trump, Barack Obama warns, and U.S. democracy dies. That, in a nutshell, was the stark message Obama delivered about his successor to the entire cou…
  People's World · [email protected]
August 19, 2020 at 9:16 PM

The daily life of those fighting for $15 and a union: Bettie Douglas

The daily life of those fighting for $15 and a union: Bettie Douglas By Al Neal  The rank and file workers that came before us said a union was not the union hall nor the labor temple, nor was it the elected union officials that come and go. T…
  John Wojcik · [email protected]
August 16, 2020 at 11:48 AM

Special Guest

Dear John, I am writing to urge you to register for tonight's Town Hall on the Unemployment Crisis.   I'm happy to annouce we'll be joined by Sister Cori Bush, the Democratic nominee for St. Louis' 1st Congressional district!   Click here to …