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  • Dont steal the big box ordinance

    Dont steal the big box ordinance

    September 8, 2006

    CHICAGO — Despite a monthlong million-dollar campaign to scare residents into opposing the “big box” living wage ordinance passed by the City Council July 26, a new poll of Chicago voters shows overwhelming support for the...

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  • Putting our grief to work for peace

    Putting our grief to work for peace

    September 8, 2006

    9/11 was a watershed event in history. But, certainly what happened in the U.S. was not an isolated and distant incident; it was something that has been experienced all over the world — from the political...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    September 8, 2006

    Action alert! On September 10th and 11th, ABC is planning to air a “docu-drama” called “Path to 9/11,” which is being billed as “an objective telling of the events of 9/11.” In fact, the film was...

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  • EDITORIAL: Sept. 11th  5 years later

    EDITORIAL: Sept. 11th 5 years later

    September 8, 2006

    Most Americans remember where they were when airplanes slammed into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most remember the alarm, anger and sadness they felt when they realized that this was a massive terrorist...

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  • Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau

    Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau

    September 8, 2006

    Several leading women’s organizations, including the Coalition of Labor Union Women, are vigorously protesting the latest scheme by GOP President George W. Bush and his Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to downsize and outsource much of her...

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