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Calif. hotel boycott grows: Korean, Mexican unionists pledge support
April 29, 2005San Francisco and Los Angeles hotel workers’ long-running contract battles to save quality health coverage and win decent wages and reasonable workloads are intensifying, with “street heat,” boycott successes and growing international solidarity.
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Ivy League graduate teachers strike
April 29, 2005News Analysis NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Refusing to be silenced by the Bush administration’s National Labor Relations Board, graduate student teachers at Yale and Columbia went on strike last week in the first ever Ivy League...
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National Clips
April 29, 2005LOUISVILLE, Ky.: Protest ‘Justice Sunday’ In the heart of the Bible belt, April 24, hundreds filled the Central Presbyterian Church under the banner of “Freedom and Faith” to condemn Republican Party efforts to hijack Christianity. The...
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Black youth resisting military recruitment
April 29, 2005News Analysis According to a U.S. Army study, unprecedented numbers of African American youth are refusing to join the Army and they are doing so for a very clear reason — opposition to the Iraq war....
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Keep your greedy hands off Social Security
April 29, 2005WASHINGTON — Thousands cheered at a Capitol Hill rally April 26 as lawmakers and leaders of labor, retirees, women, youth of color and the disabled vowed “no compromise” in the battle to block President Bush’s plan...
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