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  • Thousands say enough! in nationwide war protests

    Thousands say enough! in nationwide war protests

    March 24, 2006 By Marilyn Bechtel

    Thousands marched down Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, March 18, demanding an end to the Iraq war. The evening march, estimated at 7,000, was one of the largest of hundreds of protests around the nation on the third...

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  • French protest job bill

    French protest job bill

    March 24, 2006

    After a weekend of protests in which 1.5 million people took to the streets, French labor unions are preparing for a general strike in response to what they call a dangerous and disturbing new law. The...

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  • Senators pass Bush steal from poor budget

    Senators pass Bush steal from poor budget

    March 24, 2006

    WASHINGTON — The Senate rushed through a measure March 16 to increase the nation’s debt ceiling to just under $9 trillion, approved a $2.8 trillion 2007 fiscal year budget resolution and went home to try to...

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  • Steelworkers hit streets for Mexican miners

    Steelworkers hit streets for Mexican miners

    March 24, 2006

    Steelworkers are rallying in front of Mexican consulates across the U.S. and Canada to demand that Mexico’s President Vicente Fox reinstate the head of that country’s miners union. The pro-corporate Fox government has removed Napoleon Gomez...

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  • WHATSREALLYGOOD

    WHATSREALLYGOOD

    March 24, 2006

    Resisting war The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition sponsored a “Day of Resistance” March 16 in communities across the country. Open mikes, concerts, marches and other events were organized to provide places “where our generation...

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