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Calif. labor vows fight in special election
June 17, 2005California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped the proverbial other shoe June 13 with a long-anticipated announcement that a special election headlining his proposed ballot measures will be held Nov. 8. The governor made his announcement, foreshadowed in...
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June 17, 2005E. PALO ALTO, Calif.: ‘Evict hazardous waste plant’ “When I take a shower, I itch; and I won’t drink the tap water,” testified Rosie Solorzano, 15, who has lived her entire life a block from U.S....
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New Haven concert builds labor-neighbor solidarity
June 17, 2005News Analysis NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After a year of door knocking and organizing, neighborhood activists who have joined forces with the union organizing drive at Yale New Haven Hospital decided it was time to hold...
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Storm erupts over Patriot Act
June 17, 2005WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) was so enraged by a witness from Amnesty International USA, who linked the Patriot Act to torture at secret U.S. detention facilities around the world, that he...
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Puerto Rican Peoples Day Parade celebrates culture of resistance
June 17, 2005CHICAGO — Twenty-eight years ago, in the midst of a political storm, the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center organized the first Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade here. The parade was the PRCC’s organized response...
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