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Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Hilton Obenzinger’s ‘Witness 2017-2020’: Witness for the prosecution June 2, 2021 11:51 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz President Donald Trump, seen through a camera eyepiece, speaks at the 2019 House Republican Conference Member Retreat Dinner in Baltimore on Thursday September 12, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) Hilton Obenzinger’s new book...

First published on Dive Brief: The Biden administration is doubling federal funding to $1 billion this year for state and local pre-disaster mitigation efforts through a nascent Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program meant to "categorically shift the federal focus from reactive disaster spending and toward research-supported, proactive investment in community resilience," according to an announcement this week. FEMA’s Pre-Disaster Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program (BRIC) has yet to announce recipients from its first application cycle, which ran Septemb...

The Sale of this Massive Warehouse Adds to Hugely Impressive First Quarter Plus: High-profile Addison shopping center changes hands, an investment firm moves its headquarters to Tower Plaza of the Americas, and more. Interstate Crossing, a newly constructed, 1,023,488 square foot distribution facility in Fort Worth, has sold. According to CBRE’s U.S. Industrial & Logistics Figures for Q1 2021, the industrial market shows no signs of slowing down. Companies are leasing space at a historically robust pace to accommodate the large increase in e-commerce sales. Nearly 100 million square feet wa...

Faye Schulman, Holocaust survivor whose photographs documented the partisan resistance, dies at 101   May 28, 2021 (JTA) — Faye Schulman, a Holocaust survivor who lost most of her family to the Nazis but joined a group of partisan fighters and documented their work in photographs, died April 24, The Washington Post reported Saturday. She was 101 years old. Schulman’s photographs often depicted the smiling faces of young partisan fighters, with Schulman at times at the center in a stylish leopard print coat. Michael Berkowitz, a professor of Jewish history at University College London, to...

Courtesy of Cassowary Colorizations (JTA) — Faye Schulman, a Holocaust survivor who lost most of her family to the Nazis but joined a group of partisan fighters and documented their work in photographs, died April 24, The Washington Post reported Saturday. She was 101 years old. Schulman’s photographs often depicted the smiling faces of young partisan fighters, with Schulman at times at the center in a stylish leopard print coat. Michael Berkowitz, a professor of Jewish history at University College London, told the Post that her photos were “extremely important in documenting the histo...