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  • Eyes Wide Open dramatizes human cost of Iraq war

    Eyes Wide Open dramatizes human cost of Iraq war

    May 13, 2005

    SAN FRANCISCO — It was billed as a press conference. But what really happened in Civic Center Plaza on the morning of March 25 was an hour-long, intensely moving memorial tribute to the 1,525 U.S. soldiers...

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  • Health care racism kills 83,000 yearly

    Health care racism kills 83,000 yearly

    May 13, 2005

    A report in the March/April issue of the journal Health Affairs estimates that 83,570 excess African American deaths occur each year as a direct result of health care disparities between Blacks and whites. The report, whose...

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  • Student-labor victory at Georgetown U: Unity wins living wage for campus

    Student-labor victory at Georgetown U: Unity wins living wage for campus

    May 13, 2005

    WASHINGTON — Georgetown University workers won a tremendous living wage victory last week. After months of organizing and a nine-day hunger strike, a student-labor alliance at Georgetown won a $14-an-hour wage for 452 fulltime contract campus...

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  • Wal-Mart freeloads off Georgia kids

    Wal-Mart freeloads off Georgia kids

    May 13, 2005

    Thousands of Georgia kids are going without health care as a result of Wal-Mart’s freeloading on the state’s health care program for poor children, according to a state legislator in Georgia, where a $5 million health...

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  • Cuba fends off U.S. attacks on human rights

    Cuba fends off U.S. attacks on human rights

    May 13, 2005 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

    WASHINGTON — A crowd at the Cuban Interest Section here applauded warmly March 29 as Ambassador Dagoberto Rodriguez Berrera assailed Bush administration hypocrisy on “human rights” in Cuba. Cuba, he said, will never bow to U.S....

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