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They are killing people for money
May 13, 2005TEXAS CITY, Texas — “They are killing people for money,” a retired union carpenter told me as I was standing in front of the British Petroleum refinery plant here, March 26. I drove the 60 miles...
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Eyes Wide Open dramatizes human cost of Iraq war
May 13, 2005SAN FRANCISCO — It was billed as a press conference. But what really happened in Civic Center Plaza on the morning of March 25 was an hour-long, intensely moving memorial tribute to the 1,525 U.S. soldiers...
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Health care racism kills 83,000 yearly
May 13, 2005A report in the March/April issue of the journal Health Affairs estimates that 83,570 excess African American deaths occur each year as a direct result of health care disparities between Blacks and whites. The report, whose...
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Student-labor victory at Georgetown U: Unity wins living wage for campus
May 13, 2005WASHINGTON — Georgetown University workers won a tremendous living wage victory last week. After months of organizing and a nine-day hunger strike, a student-labor alliance at Georgetown won a $14-an-hour wage for 452 fulltime contract campus...
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Wal-Mart freeloads off Georgia kids
May 13, 2005Thousands of Georgia kids are going without health care as a result of Wal-Mart’s freeloading on the state’s health care program for poor children, according to a state legislator in Georgia, where a $5 million health...
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