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Editorial: A racist, genocidal regime
October 7, 2005Speaking of the Bush administration’s lackadaisical response to Hurricane Katrina and the misery inflicted on the people of the Gulf Coast, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) recently commented, “The system devalues human lives.” We now know just...
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Justice is not blind
October 7, 2005Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black remarked in a famous decision, Griffin v. Illinois (1956), “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.”...
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National campaign to end AIDS launched
October 7, 2005CHICAGO — The Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) kicked off its nationwide movement on this city’s Magnificent Mile Oct. 1. Two hundred protesters emphasized the need to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act, which expired Sept....
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Hurricanes and hummingbirds
October 7, 2005Workers’ CorrespondenceHouston reader Pat Burnham forwarded us the letter she sent out to friends after a weekend with Hurricane Rita. Greetings to all! My household survived with no damage, just a lot of small branches and...
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Labor Update
October 7, 2005Contract at Boeing SEATTLE (PAI) — Members of the Machinists union marched back into Boeing plants Sept. 29 after ratifying a new three-year pact with the airplane maker by a 4-1 margin. They had been on...
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