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New Haven concert builds labor-neighbor solidarity
June 17, 2005News Analysis NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After a year of door knocking and organizing, neighborhood activists who have joined forces with the union organizing drive at Yale New Haven Hospital decided it was time to hold...
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Storm erupts over Patriot Act
June 17, 2005WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) was so enraged by a witness from Amnesty International USA, who linked the Patriot Act to torture at secret U.S. detention facilities around the world, that he...
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Puerto Rican Peoples Day Parade celebrates culture of resistance
June 17, 2005CHICAGO — Twenty-eight years ago, in the midst of a political storm, the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center organized the first Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade here. The parade was the PRCC’s organized response...
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Wave of resolutions reject AFL-CIO split
June 17, 2005Powerful, unanimous voices are being heard from across our nation’s labor movement. They are stating in one voice: “Unity!” Two state labor federations from opposite sides of the country — Connecticut and New Mexico — have...
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Juneteenth holiday celebrates freedom
June 17, 2005Commentary Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. The celebration marks the events of June 19 (“Juneteenth”), 1865, when Union General Gordon Grangergy read the Emancipation Proclamation...
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