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...labor movement was born. Tom Dreesen, who had been in the Teamsters Union when he worked on the loading docks in Chicago, became the comedians' chief organizer and spokesman. A former G.I. who was a few years older than most of the youngsters at the Comedy Store, Dreesen had little affection for the college kids who had protested the Vietnam War, but he provided an articulate voice for their working stiffs' complaints. He tried to appeal to Mitzi's sense of fair play. "I told Mitzi, you pay the waiters, you pay the waitresses, you pay the guy who cleans...
...states that will be voting on February 5. The Obama campaign is planning a full schedule for Kennedy, particularly in places, such as the Latino community, where Obama remains an unknown quantity and the Kennedy name still carries enormous emotion. Kennedy also carries significant clout with organized labor, which could be looking for a new candidate to rally behind, now that John Edwards' star has faded. "To have him offer such a powerful endorsement, I think, will mean a lot," Obama told me in an interview. "Obviously, there are people who are still getting familiar with me nationwide...
...court near Paris has ruled that six French aid workers convicted in Chad and sentenced to an eight-year prison for attempted kidnapping will serve that full jail term in France - though with no hard labor, which under French law is banned. The ruling brings the bizarre, at times tawdry saga of humanitarian assistance group Zoé's Ark to its legal conclusion, but emotions still run high: as the judgment was read out, relatives and friends of the six shook the courtroom with cries of protest and claims of political manipulation...
...Nevada was that, apart from the late endorsement by the Culinary Workers' Union, he didn't have a lot of that institutional support. And though he has begun to build those relationships in California--including the endorsement of the Latina head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor--he may not have enough time to attain the kind of recognition among Latino voters that Clinton enjoys...
...family in Poland in the 1920s and '30s, Miles Lerman had no way of knowing he would end up making a mark on the other side of the Atlantic as an anti-Nazi warrior. After the Nazis seized his family's flour mills and he was imprisoned in a labor camp, he escaped to spend two years battling the SS in the forests of Poland. Lerman, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, helped plan and found the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and became its chairman emeritus. He also met with Pope John Paul II and other leaders...