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  • Social Security and Calif. pensions facing very similar threats

    Social Security and Calif. pensions facing very similar threats

    February 11, 2005

    As California labor and community organizations mobilize to uphold Social Security, they are seeing a related development in the concerted drive by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to privatize new state workers’ pensions and eliminate state contributions to...

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  • Chiles privatized pensions spell worker hardship

    Chiles privatized pensions spell worker hardship

    February 11, 2005

    NewsAnalysis As the Bush administration pushes to privatize Social Security, many people are looking at countries where state-funded pensions have been privatized. One of them is Chile. President Bush lauded Chile’s privatized social security system as...

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  • Protesters say turn on the heat

    Protesters say turn on the heat

    February 11, 2005

    CHICAGO — Angry city residents suffering without heat have joined advocates for low-income energy assistance to hold numerous protests to get household heat turned back on in thousands of homes across Chicago. On Jan. 18 they...

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  • Gala opening for Chicagos Unity Center

    Gala opening for Chicagos Unity Center

    February 11, 2005

    CHICAGO — A new political landmark will throw its doors open here, Feb. 12, for a gala open house. The Unity Center, operated by the Workers Education Society (WES), is a newly renovated “green” building, which...

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  • One familys response to the State of the Union address

    One familys response to the State of the Union address

    February 11, 2005

    When Mr. Bush gave the State of the Union address, he spoke of Iraq as a country which Americans are really proud of, because they voted Jan. 30 — although we well know it is a...

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