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EDITORIAL: Rogue bankers = homelessness
June 22, 2007The stock market continues to skyrocket, corporate profits are rising at a record-setting pace and mortgage foreclosures surged 90 percent in May compared to a year ago. The rich are getting filthier and working families are...
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EDITORIAL: Human rights are inalienable
June 22, 2007The reopening of Senate floor debate on the “Grand Bargain” immigration bill, S 1348, reflects, among many things, the increasing significance of migrating labor in global economics and politics. Like global warming, it cannot be ignored...
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Women of the world unite for peace and solidarity
June 22, 2007CARACAS, Venezuela — The fight against war is part of the fight for women to become “first-class citizens in every nation,” declared Marcia Campos, the Brazilian president of the Women’s International Democratic Federation. It’s part of...
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This Week In Labor
June 22, 2007LGBT unionists fighting on several fronts Pride at Work, an AFL-CIO affiliate, is a group of labor union activists who seek full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers in their workplaces and their...
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Nations first Green Jobs Corps poised for launch
June 22, 2007OAKLAND, Calif. — With City Council approval of $250,000 in seed money expected this week, Oakland is poised to launch the nation’s first Green Jobs Corps program to train young people with limited job prospects for...
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