Remembering Curtis Strong, 1915-2003
Northwest Indiana and the nation as a whole lost one of their greatest labor and civil rights leaders when Curtis Strong died on Sept. 16.
New CD releases cover a whole world of music
Music Review The Oliver Mtukudzi Collection, the Tuku Years, Oliver Mtukudzi (Putumayo World Music)
The Responsive Eye
Review “The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Sept. 9 - Dec. 14
Wisconsin readers reach $3,500 goal
With a $170 donation from longtime People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo supporter John Gilman last week, Wisconsin World/Mundo readers reached their goal of raising $3,500 for the newspaper’s 2003 Fund Drive.
Neil Youngs Greendale fights corporate greed
Music review Greendale, the new CD from Neil Young, definitely continues the mystery and awe from his devotees and critics, and is clearly a new direction for Young.
Warren Zevon left something wonderful
Music review I knew Warren Zevon was dying of lung cancer when I started this review last month. Still, I put off finishing it. Somehow I thought he would live forever. I was wrong. He died Sept. 7 at 56.
Artists and fans are taking their music back
In April 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced an unprecedented lawsuit against four college students for a combined amount of $98.7 billion. Their crime? Hosting a search engine on their dorm room computers.
Victory at Yale, Hospital next
NEW HAVEN – Even as jubilant members of Locals 34 and 35 at Yale University cheered, sang, and celebrated the best contracts in their history, they vowed to keep up the fight in support of their sisters and brothers in the dietary department of Yale New Haven Hospital.
Small changes, big benefits
Over the next few months, you may notice some changes taking place on the front page of the People’s Weekly World. They might not seem like much, but they’re helping us improve our circulation.
Soldiers dad to Bush: Stop playing with lives
WASHINGTON – Larry Syverson, father of two combat soldiers deployed in Iraq, told a National Press Club news conference Sept. 24 that George W. Bush is “playing with my sons’ lives” to secure control of Iraqi oil.
