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Labor/equality alliance lives
May 25, 2007It is appropriate that Chicago, where the fight for the 8-hour day began so dramatically at Haymarket Square 120 years ago, is the site of this year’s Coalition of Black Trade Unionists convention. Chicago is also...
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Say no to war funding
May 25, 2007Anger. Frustration. This is what many opposed to the Iraq war felt after hearing that the Democratic leadership will pull deadlines for troop withdrawal from the funding bill. We are angry that the Bush administration launched...
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Afghanistan, the other war
May 25, 2007“We know that true peace will only be achieved when we give the Afghan people the means to achieve their own aspirations. Peace will be achieved by helping Afghanistan develop its own stable government. ... We...
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Black unionists urge new social contract
May 25, 2007CHICAGO — Dismantling of the corporate agenda is the big mission that the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) took on as it opened its 36th International Convention here May 23 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel....
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
May 25, 2007Presidential hopefuls back unionists at D.C. rallyThree Democratic presidential candidates — Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) — talked union at the Machinists’ “Enough is Enough!” rally near the...
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