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  • Editorial: Criminals at large

    Editorial: Criminals at large

    July 22, 2005

    Our page 3 story highlights the longstanding slimy, criminal tactics of Bush-Cheney mastermind Karl Rove. It points out how Rove’s lying, cheating, backstabbing methods, dating back to the Nixon days, helped the ultra-right seize the pinnacles...

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  • The debates in labor: Lessons from our past

    The debates in labor: Lessons from our past

    July 22, 2005

    Read the 1946 political action program of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and much of it sounds like it could have been written for today. It is a fighting program calling for a national health...

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  • CAFTA = pollution, hunger, job loss

    CAFTA = pollution, hunger, job loss

    July 22, 2005 By Bruce Bostick And Rosalío Muñoz

    With a vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement expected in the House of Representative before the end of July, 10 activists in the Los Angeles Coalition Against CAFTA held a four-day hunger strike July...

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  • Medicare drug plan: Stingy benefits, high cost

    Medicare drug plan: Stingy benefits, high cost

    July 22, 2005

    The Bush administration’s top health officials have hit the road to educate (sell) seniors on Medicare’s complex new drug benefit. A recent stop in New Hampshire was like a road show, complete with a bus painted...

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  • Labor Update

    Labor Update

    July 22, 2005

    Tune in to AFL-CIO convention Even if you’re not in town, you can tune in via the web to the AFL-CIO convention, which runs July 25-28 in Chicago. An Internet alert from the Working Families e-Activist...

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