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There's Always Work at the Post Office
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States.Black postal workers--often college-educated military veterans--fought their way into postal positions and unions and became a critical force for social change. They combined black labor protest and civic traditions to construct a civil rights unionism at the post office. They were a major factor in the 1970 nationwide postal wildcat strike, which resulted in full collective bargaining rights for the major postal unions under the newly established U.S. Postal Service in 1971. In making the fight for equality primary, African American postal workers were influential in shaping today's post office and postal unions.
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Philadelphia Daily News Stu Bykofsky column
The largest ransom payment I found online was the $17,000 paid by Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California to a hacker who seized control of the hospital's computer systems. \"At first I thought it was a joke, especially when he said I had five days to pay or the amount would double,\" says Elsen. Because they were his business files, and were not being backed up as he believed they were -- \"long story,\" he sighs -- he felt he had no choice but to pay.
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The Beacon-News, Aurora, Ill., Denise Crosby column
[...]that table will remain \"as is\" -- by choice, a visible reminder of the fun we had turning the kitchen into a full-service salon. Besides fingerprints and random socks, I've collected Matchbox cars, action figures, hair bows and Nike footwear ... all of which I'm finding in the most unexpected places as I gradually set about putting the house back in order.
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