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Where should we go? How did we get here?
November 16, 2007BOOK REVIEW Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s By George Lipsitz University of Illinois Press, 1994 Softcover, 368 pp., $21 Even though we can point to a number of promising developments in today’s...
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BOOK REVIEW: Four centuries of U.S. working-class literature
November 16, 2007In his poem “A Worker Reads History,” Bertolt Brecht wrote: Who built the Seven Gates of Thebes? The books are filled with kings. Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? In the last...
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Largest Veterans Day parade goes to Phoenix
November 16, 2007The Veterans Day parade in Phoenix, Ariz., claims to be the largest in the country. It certainly was long and well attended. Among the floats in the parade was one from Veterans for Peace, an organization...
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L.A. 8 case ends in full exoneration
November 16, 2007News Analysis On Nov. 1, attorneys for the two last remaining defendants in the famous “Los Angeles 8” case announced an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, whereby all government proceedings against the two Palestinian...
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Jena Six plea: Not guilty!
November 16, 2007Jena Six defendant Bryant Purvis pleaded not guilty to reduced charges of aggravated second-degree battery in his arraignment before the LaSalle Parish Court in Jena, La., Nov. 7. Trials of the six youth were expected to...
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