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  • Antiwar actions span the nation

    Antiwar actions span the nation

    April 1, 2005

    The 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

    Rocking Arnold’s world

    April 1, 2005 By Joseph Hancock And Kelly McConnell

    LOS 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

    Calif. labor takes up ballot initiative fight

    April 1, 2005

    As 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

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    April 1, 2005

    Don’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

    Winchester workers win contract

    April 1, 2005

    NEW 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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