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  • How the Free Market Killed New Orleans

    How the Free Market Killed New Orleans

    September 4, 2005

    The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Armed with advanced warning that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that...

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  • Dallas groups rally against Wal-Mart

    Dallas groups rally against Wal-Mart

    September 3, 2005

    DALLAS — The national chain of public protests against Wal-Mart’s labor practices added another link Aug. 20 at the Kennedy Memorial in downtown Dallas. In 100-degree weather, a crowd of more than 100 people gathered to...

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  • Latinos step up calls to end war, military recruitment

    Latinos step up calls to end war, military recruitment

    September 2, 2005

    The peace movement is alive and well in Latino communities across the nation, as well as in Puerto Rico. On Aug. 29, Latino-led press conferences in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and El Paso...

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  • Venezuela Matters

    Venezuela Matters

    September 2, 2005

    CHICAGO — During an Aug. 24 press conference with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who denounced televangelist Pat Robertson’s call for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s assassination, the consul general of Venezuela, Martin Sanchez, announced a multimedia cultural...

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  • Labor stories on stage  one womans vision

    Labor stories on stage one womans vision

    September 2, 2005

    CHICAGO — The audience was moved. Many, especially the moms in the room, were moved to tears. Who evoked such a response at a lunchtime performance during the July International Labor Communications Association convention here? Lucy...

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