Vol. 79/No. 10 March 23, 2015
March 23, 1990
PANAMA CITY, Panama — Condemning the December 20 invasion by U.S. forces and calling for the total removal of the troops from Panamanian soil, 200 people gathered here to commemorate International Women’s Day.“This is going to be a different kind of March 8,” said Teodora Rodríguez, “because it takes place in an occupied country with a government that is against the people.
“This meeting will be a tribute not only to those women who died in a fire in the United States,” said Rodríguez, referring to the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City that killed 145 women garment workers, “but a tribute to those who died December 20, victims of the U.S. invasion.”
March 22, 1965
NEW YORK, March 14 — In the largest single demonstration in Harlem’s history, some 25,000 persons marched today in support of the freedom fighters of Selma, Alabama. The virtually unanimous mood of the demonstration was criticism of President Lyndon B. Johnson for not sending federal troops or marshals to Alabama.About half the marchers were white. They — as well as many of the Negro marchers — had come from other parts of the city in response to the call of the two organizations sponsoring the march: CORE and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. They were joined by thousands of Harlem residents.
March 23, 1940
More than eight hundred thousand WPA [Works Progress Administration] workers — more than one man in every three of the 2,321,000 now on WPA rolls — are to be fired during the coming weeks, the WPA Administration has announced. Two hundred thousand are to be fired during April, the rest in batches so that, by the end of the fiscal year, June 30, there shall be no more than 1,500,000 on the rolls.The New Deal has transformed itself completely into the War Deal. Federal funds have one main purpose in the hands of Roosevelt: war preparations. The index for war expenditures has been going up like a skyrocket. The index for WPA expenditures has been going down nearly as fast.
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