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  • Families demand, Bring em home!

    Families demand, Bring em home!

    August 29, 2003

    CRAWFORD, Texas – Something is new in the fight against President Bush’s military aggressions in the Middle East. It is the growing resistance of the military men and women as expressed by their families here at...

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  • The Thrill and the Agony, This week in sports: The founding sisters

    The Thrill and the Agony, This week in sports: The founding sisters

    August 29, 2003

    Soccer is probably the sport most played by our country’s youth: it teaches strategy, teamwork, and endurance (as well as encouraging the eating of juicy orange slices). And yet our national attention span remains far too...

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  • Labor College: 10 years and going strong

    Labor College: 10 years and going strong

    August 29, 2003

    TUCSON, Ariz. – Salt of the Earth Labor College will kick off its eleventh year with a fall semester that tackles some of the most important questions facing working people today. The school will open the...

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  • Church worker dispute resolved

    Church worker dispute resolved

    August 29, 2003

    Almost two months after five south Texas church workers were fired for unionizing, the ensuing dispute between the United Farm Workers (UFW) union and the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville has been partially resolved. On June 18...

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  • Bilingual teacher cuts denounced

    Bilingual teacher cuts denounced

    August 29, 2003

    LAWRENCE, Mass. – School Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy, who came to Lawrence, a majority Latino city, in 2001, is under attack for having fired 24 bilingual teachers for not passing an oral English examination while he, himself,...

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