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World Youth Festival concludes with music, fighting spirit
August 19, 2005CARACAS, Venezuela — More than 17,000 young people from around the world concluded the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students here Aug. 15 with a colorful ceremony of music, dance and fighting spirit. The festival...
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Social Security at 70: Happy Birthday, but its also time to fight
August 19, 2005ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — If you want to start a fight in this tidy, hard-working former steel producing center, defend Bush and speak up for privatizing Social Security. So many people showed up at the Fez banquet...
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Copper strikers standing firm
August 19, 2005TUCSON, Ariz. — Copper workers on strike against Asarco are resolved to stick it out. The mine and smelter workers walked off their jobs July 1 in protest of Asarco’s (and parent company Grupo Mexico’s) refusal...
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Capital campaign in home stretch
August 19, 2005“What a change! What an improvement! The place looks great!” These were some of the thoughts running through my head as I walked into the Los Angeles Workers Center for the first time in several months....
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Roberts hostile to equal pay, memo shows
August 19, 2005WASHINGTON — A newly released legal memo by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts calling pay equity for women a “pernicious” legal doctrine touched off demands by women’s organizations that he be quizzed closely on the...
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