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Lessons from the Maine paperworkers strike
March 11, 2005BOOK REVIEW Peter Kellman was a key leader of the 1987-88 Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) strike against International Paper (IP) in Jay, Maine. “Divided We Fall” is a focused history of the 20th century struggles of...
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Irish women will be heard
March 11, 2005NEW YORK — Several months ago, when I was appearing in “Women on the Verge of HRT” at the Irish Arts Center, Marie Jones (author of “Stones in his Pockets” and “Women on the Verge”) went...
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Military recruiters have unrivaled access to public schools
March 11, 2005Should parents have the right to choose to protect a child from being targeted by military recruiters in school? Is it an inherent part of public school education to be pressured to sign an irrevocable contract...
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A peasant stand up thus?
March 11, 2005In Shakespeare’s monumental tragedy, King Lear, a series of appalling crimes are committed in a context of betrayal, torture, war and invasion. In Act III, the Earl of Gloucester is brought forward so his eyes can...
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Does Wal-Mart speak for women?
March 11, 2005Does Wal-Mart speak for women? Wal-Mart has been hitting the airways with regular television commercials. A lot of them, maybe even most of them, depict happy women. Happy women shoppers and happy women workers. There’s no...
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