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  • May Day: finding its way back home

    May Day: finding its way back home

    May 3, 2008

    May Day 2008 would have been a great time for both. Not that long ago labor activists had to struggle with a cold war mythology that had May Day as a creation of the Soviet Union....

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  • Letters – May 2, 2008

    Letters – May 2, 2008

    May 3, 2008

    The price of invasion He wrote a story. About three kids he met while he was over there. Over there on a tower... On a tower guarding a place. A terrible place where they kept prisoners....

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  • Pain at the pump

    Pain at the pump

    May 3, 2008

    Gas prices set a record at $3.60 a gallon nationwide April 28, up 66 cents from a year ago. Experts expect prices above $4 a gallon this summer. Rising fuel costs are hitting virtually every area...

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  • Stop the feeding frenzy

    Stop the feeding frenzy

    May 3, 2008

    The corporate media feeding frenzy in the wake of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s question-and-answer session at the National Press Club is the latest example of how desperate right-wing and ruling circles (yes, the real elite) are...

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  • Hispanic Caucus stands up to right wing

    Hispanic Caucus stands up to right wing

    May 3, 2008

    Less than a year since the Bush administration’s flawed “comprehensive” immigration bill failed in the Senate and with just six months until the November elections, pressure on the House by both pro and anti-immigrant groups is...

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