A daughter s thanks to the House in the Wells in Derry for the love and care shown to her father
Facility provides accommodation and support for men with alcohol addiction
The House in the Wells is based in the Bogside area of Derry.
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Derry man Tony McCool died on January 15 at the age of 76. Tony (pictured below) was an alcoholic and had lived in the House of the Wells in the Bogside for the last years of his life. The House in the Wells provides accommodation and support for men with alcohol addiction. In this article, Tony s daughter, Jackie Kelly, pays tribute to the care and love that staff at the Wells showed to her father.
By Seth Galinsky February 1, 2021 Above, Militant/Candace Wagner; Inset, Militant/Seth GalinskySocialist Workers Party candidates are joining strike picket lines and social struggles and campaigning on workers’ doorsteps, discussing fight to defend interests of working class. Above, Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, with striking Teamsters at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx Jan. 18. Right, SWP candidate for New York mayor Róger Calero discusses need for union with a “deliverista,” one of 80,000 grocery and restaurant delivery workers in New York City, Jan. 17.
Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaign supporters are meeting growing numbers of working people who are looking for ways to resist the impact of the capitalist crisis. Many are interested in discussing the SWP’s program for fighting to defend working-class interests.
By Susan Lamont February 1, 2021
BESSEMER, Ala. “The company has been calling workers in for meetings, 20 at a time, all day, every day, to talk against the union,” Jerry Burns, who works at the Amazon fulfillment center here, often unloading trucks on the overnight shift, told the
Militant.
We spoke with Burns in his apartment Jan. 14 during a two-day visit here to learn more about the union-organizing drive at Amazon, which opened its Bessemer fulfillment center last March. Because of workers’ concern about company retaliation, the
Militant is using pseudonyms.
Kaitlin Estill and Ellen Brickley from Louisville, Kentucky, joined John Benson, Markie Wilson and Susan LaMont from Atlanta on the two-day team, going door to door here and in nearby Hueytown to meet Amazon workers. We also talked with other workers in the community to find out what they thought and to build solidarity with the organizing drive.
A Manchester man convicted of murdering a Cedar Rapids teenager more than 40 years ago has hired a new lawyer.
Chicagoland Attorney Kathleen Zellner has confirmed to our news partner, KCRG, that her office is now representing Jerry Burns – and plans to appeal Burns’ conviction.
Burns was found guilty last February in the murder of 18-year old Michelle Martinko of Cedar Rapids, who was found dead in her parents’ car in the Westdale Mall parking lot in Cedar Rapids in December 1979.
Burns was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole last August. His lawyers filed a motion for a new trial based on new evidence, but the judge denied the motion.
CEDAR RAPIDS Convicted killer Jerry Burns, who fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in 1979, has hired a Chicago-area lawyer who received national attention for representing a man featured in Netflix’s documentary series “Making of a Murderer.”
Court appeal records state Kathleen Zellner, who represented Steven Avery in the true crime documentary, and associate Nicholas Curran, who both practice in Downers Grove, Ill., have joined the appeal team, along with Elizabeth Araguas and Frank Nidey of Nidey Erdahl Meier & Araguas in Cedar Rapids.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office confirmed that no appeal has been filed at this time. The deadline is Feb. 16.