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Antiwar actions span the nation
April 1, 2005The March 18-20 weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. At least 765 towns and cities, in all 50 states, held antiwar actions. Last week’s PWW reported from a national action in...
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Rocking Arnold’s world
April 1, 2005LOS ANGELES — When musical composer Aaron Copland was commissioned by the Works Projects Administration to write “Fanfare for the Common Man,” it must have been with public workers in mind.
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Calif. labor takes up ballot initiative fight
April 1, 2005As Gov. Arnold Schwarzen-egger continues to threaten a special election next November to press his pro-corporate agenda, a broad and growing coalition is fighting back with positive initiatives to benefit California’s ordinary people. The Alliance for...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
April 1, 2005Don’t privatize!SALINAS, Calif.: Library to hold emergency ‘read-in’ The United Farm Workers of America and the AFL-CIO are working with the peace group Code Pink and community groups to keep library doors open in this city...
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Winchester workers win contract
April 1, 2005NEW HAVEN, Conn. — When community leaders and elected officials showed up March 17 for a press conference at the Winchester plant’s Division Street entrance here, the company refused to open the gates so that workers...
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