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Californians fighting privatization on two fronts
February 11, 2005OPINION The Alliance of Retired Americans and its California affiliate CARA, along with the entire labor movement, are part of a broad and growing national coalition determined to uphold Social Security against the intense attack being...
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LETTERS
February 11, 2005Another side to story I am writing this to Carolyn Rummel in response to her People’s Culture article in the 1/15-21 PWW titled “Compelling film spotlights rape injustice.” I appreciate the People’s Culture section of...
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EDITORIALS
February 11, 2005Trillions in red ink President George W. Bush’s 2006 budget resorts to so many accounting tricks it reads like the annual corporate report of Enron or WorldCom. Robert Greenstein, director of the widely respected Center on...
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Steroids, Racism and Statistics
February 11, 2005On a sunny July day in 1887, Cap Anson of the Chicago White Stockings refused to play a team from Newark unless they removed their starting pitcher, an African American named George Stovey. Thus began the...
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The Deep Sea Strike, 1946
February 11, 2005At age 19, the 1946 Deep Sea Strike climaxed my radicalization into unionism. The drama of the event stamped solidarity into my soul forever. Crews pouring off their ships, marching to the union hall on Fleet...
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