Peter Costantini ~ Seattle ~ May 25, 2020
“Shelter from the Storm” presents a panorama of asylum – the protective immigration status many migrants have sought at the U.S. southwest border – from shifting angles of experience, law, demography, economics, history and politics.”
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Peter Costantini ~ Seattle ~ December 3, 2019
United Steel Workers members in big march – Credit: Casey Nelson
Demonstrators blocking street – Credit: Casey Nelson
One afternoon during the 1999 Seattle Ministerial of the World Trade Organization, the police and the Black Bloc were mixing it up on Pike [...]
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Third article in a series on minimum wages. This is an expanded version of the interview published by Inter Press Service.
Seattle, December 18, 2014
Since his college days, John Schmitt says, he’s been “very interested in questions of economic justice, economic inequality.” He served a nuts-and-bolts apprenticeship [...]
Seattle
Second article in a series on minimum wages.
Note: This is an expanded, footnoted version of the article published by Inter Press Service.
In 1958, when New York State was considering raising its minimum wage 33% from $0.75 to $1.00, merchants at hearings complained that their profit margins were so small that [...]
Seattle, Washington, United States
Note: This is an expanded, footnoted version of the article published on June 3, 2014 under the same headline by Inter Press Service.
English: Low-Wage Workers Butt Heads With 21st Century Capital. http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/06/low-wage-workers-butt-heads-with-21st-century-capital
Español: McDonald’s y la lucha por el salario mínimo en EEUU.
Seattle, Washington, EEUU
Nota: El siguiente comentario ha aparecido en inglés en Inter Press Service y en Crossover Dreams.
Note: The following commentary has been published in English by Inter Press Service and Crossover Dreams.
El debate sobre la migración a Estados Unidos ¿le extraña? Pues, acuérdese de la Línea Maginot.
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Continued from Part 1.
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