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  • Bushs hypocrisy on Cuba becomes starker

    Bushs hypocrisy on Cuba becomes starker

    April 29, 2005

    News Analysis On April 21 in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC) rejected a watered-down Cuban resolution asking the United States to let an HRC team check on the widely reported mistreatment of U.S....

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  • Labor pushes minimum wage hikes

    Labor pushes minimum wage hikes

    April 29, 2005 By Martha Hancock

    To counter the anti-people program being put forward by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his corporate backers, the California Labor Federation is putting forward its own program for economic recovery.

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  • Calif. hotel boycott grows: Korean, Mexican unionists pledge support

    Calif. hotel boycott grows: Korean, Mexican unionists pledge support

    April 29, 2005 By Marilyn Bechtel And Joseph Hancock

    San Francisco and Los Angeles hotel workers’ long-running contract battles to save quality health coverage and win decent wages and reasonable workloads are intensifying, with “street heat,” boycott successes and growing international solidarity.

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  • Ivy League graduate teachers strike

    Ivy League graduate teachers strike

    April 29, 2005

    News Analysis NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Refusing to be silenced by the Bush administration’s National Labor Relations Board, graduate student teachers at Yale and Columbia went on strike last week in the first ever Ivy League...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    April 29, 2005

    LOUISVILLE, Ky.: Protest ‘Justice Sunday’ In the heart of the Bible belt, April 24, hundreds filled the Central Presbyterian Church under the banner of “Freedom and Faith” to condemn Republican Party efforts to hijack Christianity. The...

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