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Tucson sanitation workers: Dont privatize our city jobs!
June 11, 2004TUCSON, Ariz. – Sanitation workers here are fighting back against the threat of privatization. A crowd of 100 rallied May 24 at City Hall to protest the proposal by Republican City Council member Fred Ronstadt to...
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CAFTA disaster opposed
June 11, 2004DALLAS – North Texans were among the many Americans worried when the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was signed May 28 by the foreign ministers of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and U.S....
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International notes
June 11, 2004Israel/Palestine: Israeli CP presses political solution In a statement on the 30th anniversary of the 1967 war, the Communist Party of Israel called the 37-year Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories “an ongoing catastrophe for both...
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Venezuelan unionists champion democracy
June 11, 2004NEW YORK – New York’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU) hosted a panel discussion of Venezuelan labor leaders here May 26. The delegation included leading members of the Venezuelan Transport Workers, Public Service Workers, Grain...
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National Clips
June 11, 2004BRUNSWICK, Ga.: Protesters ‘unwelcome’ G-8 Summit Caravans of military Humvees patrolled the cobblestone streets in this coastal town starting June 5. Legions of Secret Service agents and an estimated 10,000-20,000 federal, state and local police roamed...
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