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  • 9/11 rescue workers demand justice

    9/11 rescue workers demand justice

    March 1, 2008

    Money isn’t everything for Scott Aline, a member of Operating Engineers Local 138 in New York, who spent months cleaning up the toxic remains of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001....

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  • It can happen here, union leader warns

    It can happen here, union leader warns

    March 1, 2008

    WASHINGTON (PAI) – Continuing his crusade against repressive immigration enforcement raids on workers, United Food and Commercial Workers President Joe Hansen declared, “workers cannot sit back anymore and say ‘it cannot happen here’ because it has.”...

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  • 2008 vote on AFL-CIO agenda

    2008 vote on AFL-CIO agenda

    March 1, 2008

    SAN DIEGO, Calif. (PAI) – Politics will be a big item on the AFL-CIO executive council agenda at its meeting in San Diego, March 4 – 6. The likelihood of an endorsement is slim because there...

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  • Needed: a red-green alliance

    Needed: a red-green alliance

    March 1, 2008

    “The combination of the struggle for the emancipation of mankind and the struggle for the preservation of the Earth needs a lot of new thinking, and I believe that the new thinking does not come from...

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  • To Stand On A Street Corner

    To Stand On A Street Corner

    March 1, 2008

    (For Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz) To stand on a street corner for just a few minutes, Perhaps to dream about smoking a cigar, Look at the girls as they walk by, To lift up a soccer...

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