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Community rallies for immigrant rights
September 14, 2007CLEVELAND — At a rally for immigrant rights here Sept. 10, a standing-room-only crowd applauded as the 8-year-old son of Elvira Arellano, recently deported to Mexico, appealed for an end to the inhumane assaults on families...
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Union retirees tool up one-two punch for 2008
September 14, 2007WASHINGTON — Retired garment worker Elli Kuhns of Shamokin, Pa., knows hard times, recalls when women could not vote, remembers Franklin Delano Roosevelt, savors the stunning defeat of Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum in 2006 and,...
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Labor mourns 9/11 dead, fights for the living
September 14, 2007NEW YORK — The city’s labor movement gathered near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, Sept. 8, in a combined Sept. 11, 2001, commemoration, Labor Day tribute and call for federal legislation to ensure health care for...
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Bottom line: occupation is the problem
September 14, 2007News Analysis Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony to Congress was long-awaited. Many moderate Republicans who claim to be uncomfortable with President Bush’s ongoing Iraq war policy insisted on waiting for Petraeus’ September report rather than making “rash”...
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Chrysler workers walk as deadline nears
September 13, 2007Three hundred workers represented by the United Auto Workers union walked off the job in Auburn Hills, Mich., Sept. 12, as the People’s Weekly World went to press. The workers who walked out are employed at...
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