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  • Change to Win holds founding convention

    Change to Win holds founding convention

    September 30, 2005

    ST. LOUIS — Seventy-five percent of Change to Win’s $16 million budget will be earmarked for union organizing, delegates to the labor federation’s founding convention decided here Sept. 27. The affiliating unions are the Service Employees,...

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  • A day of theater to benefit PWW

    A day of theater to benefit PWW

    September 30, 2005

    The 2005 annual fund drive is underway and more than $20,000 has been collected. Plans are underway across the country to raise thousands more.

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  • Rural Mississippi hung out to dry

    Rural Mississippi hung out to dry

    September 30, 2005

    A full 22 days after Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast, Robert Williams of Vancleave, Miss., is still waiting for a FEMA or a county truck — something. “I called FEMA, once the phones came back,”...

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  • Make levees, not war: 300,000 marchers say End Iraq war

    Make levees, not war: 300,000 marchers say End Iraq war

    September 30, 2005

    Protesters demand justice for hurricane survivors WASHINGTON — An estimated 300,000 antiwar demonstrators marched past the White House Sept. 24 chanting, “End the war now — Bring the troops home!” It was the mightiest peace outpouring...

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  • Haitis endless struggle

    Haitis endless struggle

    September 27, 2005

    Aristide and the Endless Revolution Baraka productions, Nicolas Rossier, director 82 minutes, English, French and Creole with English subtitles Showings: Vancouver International Film Festival, Sept. 30, Oct. 1 and 10; UN Film Festival at Stanford University,...

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