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Calif. labor takes up ballot initiative fight
April 1, 2005As Gov. Arnold Schwarzen-egger continues to threaten a special election next November to press his pro-corporate agenda, a broad and growing coalition is fighting back with positive initiatives to benefit California’s ordinary people. The Alliance for...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
April 1, 2005Don’t privatize!SALINAS, Calif.: Library to hold emergency ‘read-in’ The United Farm Workers of America and the AFL-CIO are working with the peace group Code Pink and community groups to keep library doors open in this city...
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Winchester workers win contract
April 1, 2005NEW HAVEN, Conn. — When community leaders and elected officials showed up March 17 for a press conference at the Winchester plant’s Division Street entrance here, the company refused to open the gates so that workers...
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covers dirty deeds
March 30, 2005[This is a companion editorial to ] While GOP House leader Tom DeLay, who faces his own legal and ethics problems, pontificated on saving Terri Schiavo and George W. lectured about a “culture of life,” their...
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Protests around the world
March 25, 2005On the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, hundreds of thousands demonstrated in some 40 countries to protest the continuing war and occupation. Following is a small sampling: Britain: Up to 100,000 people marched...
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