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Dont ask, dont tell challenged
February 11, 2005On the heels of a State of the Union address supporting a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, the Bush administration has asked the U.S. District Court in Boston to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the...
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New Yorkers rally for affordable housing
February 11, 2005NEW YORK — On Feb. 2 more than 5,000 people took part in a “Housing Here and Now!” rally outside of City Hall. It was the largest show of support for affordable housing the city has...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
February 11, 2005MIAMI: Protests in the land of Jeb Bush Around the country, Americans used the Bush inaugural to demand peace in Iraq, beginning with the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Large protests occurred in the South, with New...
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Social Security and Calif. pensions facing very similar threats
February 11, 2005As 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
February 11, 2005NewsAnalysis 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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