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Newsmaker winners announced
April 15, 2005NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The People’s Weekly World Connecticut bureau announced this week the recipients of its annual Newsmaker Awards. Connecticut Working Families Party and Community Organized for Responsible Development (CORD) have been selected to receive...
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SOARs George Edwards: Sparkplug for rank & file activism
April 8, 2005George Edwards points out he’s the only unpaid worker at the Steelworkers’ Gateway Center headquarters in Pittsburgh. The 87-year-old veteran of the Lorain, Ohio, US Steel mill now wields a phone and a keyboard instead of...
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Nine states sue U.S. on mercury rules
April 8, 2005In a backlash against what environmentalists call “disastrous” new mercury regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), nine states filed a lawsuit March 29 against the federal government, saying the rules violate the Clean Air...
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National Clips
April 8, 2005INDIANAPOLIS: Demand full funding for schools “Our kids need every dime they can get,” shouted an angry Jo Ann Williams, a school secretary. “The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.” Williams joined...
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Cesar Chavez 78th birthday celebrated
April 8, 2005Across the nation, gatherings honored the 78th anniversary of the birth of labor and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers of America and a leader in struggles for political and economic...
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