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  • Grocery workers mobilize for health care

    Grocery workers mobilize for health care

    December 17, 2004

    HAYWARD, Calif. — Hundreds of northern California grocery workers roared their approval at a press conference here Dec. 8 as California Labor Federation head Art Pulaski pledged the federation’s support for the UFCW locals now in...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    December 17, 2004

    PHILADELPHIA: A decent job is a human right Hundreds marched through a driving rain here on Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, demanding that the proposed layoff of city workers be halted, public transportation be fully funded,...

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  • Working Families Party reshapes N.Y. politics

    Working Families Party reshapes N.Y. politics

    December 17, 2004

    NEW YORK — As 2004 comes to a close, New York’s Working Families Party has a lot to celebrate. Through effective grassroots organizing, the party has helped shatter the right-wing myth that you can’t gain victories...

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  • Flawed intelligence bill advances Bush agenda

    Flawed intelligence bill advances Bush agenda

    December 17, 2004

    News Analysis The Bush administration has been pushing an agenda of restricting constitutional rights and increasing the power of the executive branch to suppress dissent. Step by step, starting with the USA Patriot Act, Bush has...

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  • Send greetings to the Cuban 5

    Send greetings to the Cuban 5

    December 17, 2004

    Five Cuban men are in U.S. jails, three of them for the rest of their lives. Their “crime” was defending their country from terrorism by monitoring the activities of violent, right-wing, anti-Cuba groups based in Miami....

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