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  • Small towns join big cities in antiwar actions

    Small towns join big cities in antiwar actions

    February 2, 2007

    In smaller cities and towns across the nation, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in solidarity with those who marched in Washington on Jan. 27 to bring the troops home. They marched in towns like Denton,...

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  • Kucinich calls for end to funding of Iraq war

    Kucinich calls for end to funding of Iraq war

    February 2, 2007

    SAN FRANCISCO — It was a night of tumultuous applause and repeated standing ovations, from the introduction of war resister First Lieutenant Ehren Watada’s mother, Carolyn Ho, by San Francisco Labor Council head Tim Paulson, to...

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  • No Child Left Behind up for review

    No Child Left Behind up for review

    February 2, 2007

    News Analysis The day after President Bush’s State of the Union address, the secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, presented a proposal to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the administration’s troubled education law. Speaking...

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  • Bush health care plan: Youre on your own

    Bush health care plan: Youre on your own

    February 2, 2007 By Susan Webb

    Health care advocates slammed President Bush’s latest health care proposals as free-market fantasy that would dismantle employer-provided health coverage, enrich insurance companies and worsen the nation’s health care crisis.

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  • Union blasts immigration raid at Smithfield

    Union blasts immigration raid at Smithfield

    February 2, 2007

    Instigated by a company hell-bent on keeping out a union, the U.S. government raided the world’s largest pork processing plant, Smithfield Packing, in Tar Heel, N.C., on Jan. 24. The United Food and Commercial Workers union...

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