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  • Claremont Resort & Spa  workers win long battle

    Claremont Resort & Spa workers win long battle

    April 7, 2006

    BERKELEY, Calif. — After a long and sometimes bitter struggle, some 400 workers at the luxury Claremont Resort and Spa have won a new, multiyear contract providing wage and benefit increases their union says will raise...

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  • National tour tells McD’s: I’m not lovin’ it

    National tour tells McD’s: I’m not lovin’ it

    April 7, 2006 By Tony Pecinovsky

    Forty-five Florida tomato workers, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), were lovin’ the solidarity from student, labor, community and religious groups in St. Louis and Chicago rallies last week. The events were part of...

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  • NATIONALCLIPS

    NATIONALCLIPS

    April 7, 2006

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: 1,500 march for immigrant rights With over 500 Latino high school students in the lead, about 1,500 united Albuquerquians marched into Civic Plaza April 1 to celebrate the city’s first official observance of Cesar...

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  • Immigrant rights: a new movement springs up

    Immigrant rights: a new movement springs up

    April 7, 2006

    WASHINGTON — Father Claudio Holzer, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Melrose Park, Ill., is a board member of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Yet even he was stunned by the...

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  • Calls mount for censure or impeachment of Bush

    Calls mount for censure or impeachment of Bush

    April 7, 2006

    WASHINGTON — Despite Republican efforts to kill it, a grassroots movement demanding that Congress censure or impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for “high crimes” is spreading across the nation. The Senate...

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