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  • Privatizing Social Security will hurt women

    Privatizing Social Security will hurt women

    January 14, 2005

    OPINIONThese remarks were delivered at a joint press conference at the National Press Club, Dec. 16, 2004, with leaders of the AFL-CIO, NAACP and others. It’s a pleasure to be here as part of such a...

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  • A tortured state

    A tortured state

    January 14, 2005

    OPINION I live in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, and its free, brave soldiers are everywhere on the march killing people to liberate them in Iraq, protecting hand-picked dictators...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    January 14, 2005

    Don’t yield an inch The following is from an action letter from Working Families e-Activist Network. President George W. Bush, his Republican allies in Congress and corporate chiefs are on an ideological trophy hunt to destroy...

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  • EDITORIALS

    EDITORIALS

    January 14, 2005

    A drum major for justice Among Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most powerful weapons was his prophetic voice that summoned the American people to stand with him against injustice. Listening to recordings of his mighty speeches,...

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  • 40 years after Selma’s Bloody Sunday

    40 years after Selma’s Bloody Sunday

    January 14, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

    The struggle for voting rights continues Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) defended the legacy of martyrs who died for voting rights when they blocked, for a few hours,...

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