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  • Agriprocessors Inc. faces union fight in Brooklyn warehouse

    Agriprocessors Inc. faces union fight in Brooklyn warehouse

    September 10, 2008

    The Forward, America’s most influential Jewish newspaper, is running a story on immigration and labor issues at the Agriprocessors Brooklyn plant that reveals the Rubaskins likely were knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. In addition, a case involving...

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  • Al-Arian finally freed on bail

    Al-Arian finally freed on bail

    September 10, 2008

    Sami Al-Arian who has spent five and a half years in prison even though a Tampa jury refused to convict him of trumped up “terrorism” charges was released on bail Sept. 2, a partial victory cheered...

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  • U.S. communists urge solidarity with people of Caribbean

    U.S. communists urge solidarity with people of Caribbean

    September 10, 2008

    The Communist Party USA notes with alarm the heavy loss of life and massive property and economic damage inflicted by three powerful hurricanes in succession – Gustav, Hanna and now Ike – on all the nations...

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  • Cuba: in the eye of Ike

    Cuba: in the eye of Ike

    September 10, 2008

    HAVANA -- All day we've been increasingly getting the 'hurricane sky.” That's when the sky gets full of darkening clouds that appear as if you're looking at the bottom of a huge drum top, and they...

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  • Thousands take back Labor Day at festival during GOP convention

    Thousands take back Labor Day at festival during GOP convention

    September 10, 2008 By Barb Kucera

    Many of the thousands of young people gathered at Harriet Island in the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minn., on Sept. 1 probably never heard of folk musician Woody Guthrie or labor organizer Joe Hill, but...

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