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Steelworkers vow to fight racism, elect Obama

LAS VEGAS — Over 3,000 Steelworker delegates filled the Las Vegas Bally Hotel convention center last week with raring-to-go enthusiasm for “taking back America for working people” in the 2008 elections. One delegate described it as...

If not to Venezuela, send Luis Posada to Panama

Jose Pertierra is Venezuela’s U.S. lawyer. He is demanding that Luis Posada be returned to Panama to finish out jail time there in connection with an attempt with three others in 2000 to murder former Cuban...

People and dogs for Obama at this parade

Forks, population 3,193, “logging capital of the world,” is located in the far northwest corner of Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula. The town is famous for its towering conifers, loggers, mushrooms, steelhead trout, and salal...

Shades of Green: July 5

East Bay workers gear up for long, hot summer

OAKLAND, Calif. — If California’s Alameda County, across the bay from San Francisco, is heading for a “long, hot summer,” extreme weather won’t be the only reason. Contracts covering 50,000 workers — half those whose unions...