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  • Southern California  Grocery workers defending your health care

    Southern California Grocery workers defending your health care

    January 9, 2004

    News Anaylsis Hindsight is 20-20 vision, so the saying goes. When Ronald Reagan declared war on labor, he began by destroying the PATCO (air traffic controllers) union. Everyone can see that now. All of labor and...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    January 9, 2004

    OLYMPIA, Wash.: Ballot measure opposes nuclear waste dump A petition campaign to enable voters to decide to halt the federal government from dumping nuclear waste in this state garnered 280,000 signatures of registered voters. A coalition...

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  • Philly schools hurt by GOP schemes

    Philly schools hurt by GOP schemes

    January 9, 2004

    News Analysis Even before George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, Philadelphia was being set up for school privatization and similar measures now encompassed in the federal law. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R) had...

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  • U.S. companies loot Iraq & U.S. taxpayers

    U.S. companies loot Iraq & U.S. taxpayers

    January 9, 2004 By Susan Webb

    As Americans at home returned to post-holiday routines, the news from Iraq continued a familiar pattern – U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians killed and wounded daily. But sharing the spotlight is the looting of Iraq by...

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  • Black, Latino leaders hit voter remap bias

    Black, Latino leaders hit voter remap bias

    January 9, 2004

    AUSTIN, Texas – A three-judge panel Jan. 6 upheld a districting plan conceived by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) to add eight or more Republicans to the Texas congressional delegation. But Black and Latino leaders...

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