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  • Philly voter signups spell trouble for GOP

    Philly voter signups spell trouble for GOP

    October 1, 2004

    PHILADELPHIA — All summer long, hundreds of volunteers have been beating the bushes here, looking for unregistered voters to sign up to vote on Nov. 2 in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The results have been...

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  • Hotel workers check out in SF

    Hotel workers check out in SF

    October 1, 2004

    San Francisco hotel workers walked out Sept. 29 as part of a three-city struggle to force giant hotel chains to agree to a common contract expiration date. The union has announced the 1,200-member strike will last...

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  • Nationwide rallies support immigration bills

    Nationwide rallies support immigration bills

    October 1, 2004

    More than 2,000 immigrants and supporters rallied in Chicago Sept. 25 to call for maximum voter participation in November.

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  • From plains to shining sea  The call is ‘Dump Bush!’

    From plains to shining sea The call is ‘Dump Bush!’

    October 1, 2004 By Susan Webb

    Heartland unionists put in long hours MOORHEAD, Minn. — Standing in a factory parking lot here on a sparkling September day, surrounded by fields of sugar beets, corn and soybeans that stretch as far as the...

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  • Health care tops list in California

    Health care tops list in California

    October 1, 2004

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Health care is taking center stage in the election campaign here, as the struggle heats up over Proposition 72, the Health Insurance Act, which will provide health insurance to over a million uninsured...

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