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  • Labor and civil rights groups: We demand jobs, justice in Gulf

    Labor and civil rights groups: We demand jobs, justice in Gulf

    October 14, 2005

    Oct. 29 rally in Baton Rouge to demand a ‘new direction’ for U.S. Gulf Coast union leaders hailed an action campaign launched by the AFL-CIO Sept. 30 to defend workers’ wages and rebuild their hurricane-torn states...

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  • Virginia gubernatorial race heats up

    Virginia gubernatorial race heats up

    October 11, 2005

    News Analysis FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — The “Old Dominion” of Virginia is supposedly a bastion of right-wing Republicanism, but there is a good chance that a moderate Democrat will win the gubernatorial election on Nov. 8,...

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  • Venezuelas president, PWW staff congratulate White Sox

    Venezuelas president, PWW staff congratulate White Sox

    October 7, 2005

    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has congratulated White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen for leading his team to the playoffs. Chavez spoke to Guillen, who’s from Venezuela, by phone last week during his weekly television and radio program,...

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  • Harry Gaynor: fighter for open housing, social justice

    Harry Gaynor: fighter for open housing, social justice

    October 7, 2005

    Harry Gaynor, a longtime fighter for peace and justice, died in Chicago on Aug. 19 of heart failure. He was 90. Born in 1914 in Brooklyn, N.Y., of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Gaynor’s family moved to Chicago...

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  • Chicago hosts world film fest

    Chicago hosts world film fest

    October 7, 2005

    The 41st Chicago International Film Festival runs Oct. 6-20. One hundred five films representing 36 countries, and four programs of shorts, will be featured at the AMC River East (Illinois and Columbus) and the Landmark (Diversey...

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