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Holiday season events raise funds and spirits
December 9, 2005CHICAGO — Amid exclamations of “Opa!” over flaming Greek saganaki, Puerto Rican ballads and “Solidarity Forever,” a packed Parthenon Restaurant hall rocked at the 18th Annual People’s Weekly World Banquet here, Dec. 4. The multiracial, inter-generational...
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Clean sweep for Houston janitors
December 9, 2005HOUSTON — In what union leaders called one of the largest organizing victories ever in Texas, a majority of nearly 5,000 Houston janitors have signed to become members of the Service Employees union and initiated a...
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A gift of survival: Venezuelas Citgo provides low-cost heating oil to U.S. needy
December 9, 2005BRONX, N.Y. — Residents of the Fordham-Bedford cooperative housing project, home to thousands of working-class people, were facing desperate times. Many were unable to pay their electric bills, and their lights were shut off. A desperate...
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Bring New Orleans Back Commission Holds Town Hall in Dallas
December 8, 2005DALLAS - Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission held a town hall meeting here Dec. 6, attracting almost 300 evacuees. The event was one of several planned for cities where large numbers of New...
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Sacramento City Council stands by antiwar resolution
December 8, 2005SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento City Council, in spite of vitriolic testimony by Iraq war supporters and hundreds of threatening e-mails from mostly out-of-town residents, on Nov. 22 refused to back down on a resolution calling...
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