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As Ohio goes, so goes the nation
November 10, 2006Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania were big players in the national tidal wave for change Nov. 7. Below are quick highlights from some of our volunteer correspondents on the ground in those and other states. Look...
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N. Calif. banquet will celebrate area activists
November 10, 2006OAKLAND, Calif. — “United We Fight Back!” will be the theme as Northern California supporters of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo gather here on Sunday, Dec. 3, to honor area organizations and leaders working to defeat...
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Mission accomplished: Labor kicks ass
November 10, 2006Labor’s challenge in this election was to provide the organizing to transform the workers’ frustration and anger into political power, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said at a post-election press conference Nov. 8. It was not only...
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Voters clean house: Rejecting Bush agenda, Americans look for new direction
November 10, 2006WASHINGTON — Fired by anger and disgust with George W. Bush, the Iraq war, corporate greed, corruption and human needs cutbacks, voters went to the polls Nov. 7 and terminated 12 years of Republican control of...
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Waste to energy
November 7, 2006Dear EarthTalk: What do you think of those “waste to energy” plants used by cities to generate power Waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities, which generate power by burning trash, have been in widespread operation in the U.S. and...
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