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...usually hectic main thoroughfare in Cicero, Ill., a largely Latino suburb just west of Chicago, was eerily desolate this morning as marchers of all ages prepared for a day of civic action. Although economic boycotts and labor strikes are being officially discouraged by organizers of May 1 immigrant solidarity activities in and around Chicago, nearly all independent retailers in Cicero, among other heavily Hispanic communities, will be closed for the day to allow workers to participate in the day?s political events. Jose Torres, owner of El Meson Mexican restaurant, closed his busy taqueria on Cermak Road - forgoing nearly...
...want to make sure that people have different options, because some workers will be fired if they take a day off and some students will be reprimanded by their parents and sanctioned by the schools for being absent today without permission. We want to give them another option for civic participation today. This is just part of our longer-term strategy. We are saying, 'Today we march, tomorrow we vote...
SHERRY WESLEY, an employee at a Santa Ana, Calif., civic building to whom a homeless man handed a wallet with $900 that he had found in a nearby trash bin. Wesley tracked down the owner, who rewarded the man with...
General requirements for a college education are becoming increasingly relevant as the percentage of high school seniors attending some institution of higher education has doubled since the 1970s. But a college degree is meaningless unless it signifies that graduates are properly prepared to enter economic, social, and civic life. After a 2006 study by the American Institutes for Research found that more than 50 percent of students at four-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex “literacy” tasks like analyzing news articles or calculating a tip at a restaurant, the Secretary of Education?...
...step the government has become with the rest of Europe and its own pro-Western urban élite. But it appears to revel in contrariness. "It's incredible how many conflicts they have produced in such a short time," said Jan Rokita, leader of the opposition Civic Platform party. The government has courted further controversy by setting up an "anticorruption" police force, controlled by the ruling party, with sweeping powers to probe serving officials and even private citizens. It re-opened an investigation into former (and still popular) President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Meanwhile, Poland's conservative press has declared a small...