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A new day in Chicago politics
May 4, 2007CHICAGO — A coalition of the multiracial organized labor movement and its community allies scored a stunning victory in the April 17 municipal runoff elections when 8 of 12 labor-backed candidates were elected to the City...
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Organizing heats up to defend womens rights
May 4, 2007Last November, South Dakota voters overturned a state abortion ban by a 12 percent margin. The April 18 Supreme Court anti-abortion ruling shows the court is “farther to the right than these conservative ‘red states’ voters,”...
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Outraged protests meet Bush veto
May 4, 2007Reacting with outrage to President Bush’s May 1 veto of a bipartisan appropriations bill requiring troops to withdraw from Iraq, opponents of the war staged hundreds of protests around the country May 2, while at the...
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Projecting labors voice in the media
May 4, 2007NEW YORK — How can the labor movement get its message to the general public in the face of a mainstream media that either ignores or paints a negative picture of it? The conference “Labor Voices:...
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Labors flame still burns for justice
May 4, 2007CHICAGO — August Spies told his executioners that if they went ahead with the hanging they would ignite a fire that could never be put out. He and three other Haymarket martyrs were indeed hanged because...
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