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  • How a globalized system creates illegality

    How a globalized system creates illegality

    October 3, 2008

    BOOK REVIEW Illegal People By David Bacon Beacon Press, 2004 Hardcover, 261 pp., $26.95 Photojournalist and activist David Bacon provides us with a useful and readable account of undocumented migration to the United States. He takes...

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  • Letters: OCTOBER 4

    Letters: OCTOBER 4

    October 3, 2008

    Bailout Former Communist Party Chair Gus Hall stated in the opening of his book “Imperialism Today”: “The French have a saying: ‘The more things change, the more they remain the same.’” This is most interesting because...

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  • EDITORIAL: An insult to women

    EDITORIAL: An insult to women

    October 3, 2008

    Sarah Palin’s selection as the Republicans’ vice-presidential candidate is an insult to women, and to the American people. It sent several disgusting messages. One: We can use women for window-dressing. Two: Women voters are dumb. They’ll...

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  • Machinists show grit as strike enters month two

    Machinists show grit as strike enters month two

    October 3, 2008

    The strike launched Sept. 4 by the Machinists against Boeing, the nation’s largest airplane maker, shows perhaps as well as anything else the rising tide of anger among American workers and their determination to fight. The...

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  • Union leader Rugola: This is our fight for democracy

    Union leader Rugola: This is our fight for democracy

    October 3, 2008

    White, African-American unionists unite for Obama COLUMBUS, Ohio — At organized labor’s Get Out The Vote mobilization here last week, Ohio AFL-CIO President Joe Rugola announced that he will walk across the state, stopping at shut-down...

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