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  • EDITORIAL: A fresh start is needed

    EDITORIAL: A fresh start is needed

    December 22, 2006

    The New Year is our time for high hopes and fresh starts. But 2007 begins with America’s conscience dragging behind us over half a million corpses from the Bush invasion and occupation in Iraq. The web...

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  • 2006: The ultra-right crashed in flames

    2006: The ultra-right crashed in flames

    December 22, 2006

    WASHINGTON — 2006 was the year the people of the United States went to the polls and voted to end right-wing Republican majority control of the House, Senate and Statehouses across the nation. Led by the...

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  • New York hospital closings: a sick proposal

    New York hospital closings: a sick proposal

    December 22, 2006

    New York State’s “Commission on Health Care in the 21st Century” has called for closing at least nine hospitals, which, with further forced mergers and downsizing, would reduce hospital beds by 4,200 statewide. Another 3,000 nursing...

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  • N.Y. transit union re-elects Toussaint

    N.Y. transit union re-elects Toussaint

    December 22, 2006

    Workers’ CorrespondenceRoger Toussaint, president of New York’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, has prevailed in a close and hard-fought union election. The race ended on Dec. 15 with the election of Toussaint for a third three-year...

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  • Dear Santa

    Dear Santa

    December 22, 2006

    About 200 demonstrators participated in a holiday-themed picket line and rally at the Woodfin Suites Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., Dec. 18. They were protesting the firings of 21 immigrant workers who had been involved in a...

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