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New Orleans rally: Save Charity Hospital
April 7, 2006Two hundred doctors, other health care workers, patients and “Charity babies” — New Orleans residents born at the city’s Charity Hospital — rallied March 25, demanding that President Bush, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and the Louisiana...
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Claremont Resort & Spa workers win long battle
April 7, 2006BERKELEY, 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
April 7, 2006Forty-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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April 7, 2006ALBUQUERQUE, 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
April 7, 2006WASHINGTON — 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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