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June 30 National Clips
June 29, 2007ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Demand humane treatment for jailed immigrants When undocumented workers looked out of their jail cell windows, June 19, they saw over 100 labor, religious and legal activists holding a vigil calling for action to...
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In Ohio, Fathers Day rally backs immigrant rights
June 29, 2007PAINESVILLE, Ohio — With raids and arrests of undocumented workers spreading, hundreds of farmworkers held a silent, solemn Father’s Day march and rally in this mid-sized town about 30 miles east of Cleveland. “It is mostly...
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Obama, Edwards top progressive poll
June 29, 2007WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and John Edwards topped a straw poll of liberal and progressive activists at the Take Back America conference here June 20.
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At 150, NEA faces tough education issues
June 29, 2007PHILADELPHIA — The nation’s largest union, the National Education Association, returns to the city where it was founded in 1857 to hold its annual meeting and representative assembly, June 30-July 5. Led by its president, Reg...
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United for Peace and Justice sets course to end Iraq war
June 29, 2007ROSEMONT, Ill. — United for Peace and Justice, the national antiwar coalition, decided at its third national assembly here June 22-24 to make congressional action to end the Iraq war its number one priority in the...
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