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  • Chicago leaders urge CTA to accept Citgo offer

    Chicago leaders urge CTA to accept Citgo offer

    January 6, 2006

    CHICAGO — “Is it not time for peace and reconciliation in a time of war and belligerency?” asked Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.). “When the people of Venezuela are offering this gift to Chicago, then why should...

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  • NSA spy plot fuels call to censure Bush, Cheney

    NSA spy plot fuels call to censure Bush, Cheney

    January 6, 2006

    Revelations that President George W. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to engage in massive spying on law-abiding people, in flagrant violation of federal law, have ignited a firestorm of angry demands that he and Vice...

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  • A busy holiday for the PWW

    A busy holiday for the PWW

    January 6, 2006

    The news doesn’t stop for the holidays and, this year, neither did the World’s coverage. Even though there was no print edition of the paper, readers were able to keep up with important stories at pww.org....

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  • Iranian trade unionists jailed

    Iranian trade unionists jailed

    January 6, 2006

    Take Action Iran’s Tudeh Party announced that the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested a number of leaders and key activists of the Tehran Public Bus Transportation Company Trade Union on Dec. 22-23....

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  • 34,000 N.Y. transit workers score victory

    34,000 N.Y. transit workers score victory

    January 6, 2006

    NEW YORK — Subway and bus workers here are widely seen as having scored a victory over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the first citywide transit strike in a quarter century. Defying the state’s Taylor Law,...

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