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IBEW rank and file powers up electoral grid
October 15, 2004Commentary When Dick Cheney boasted during the vice presidential debate that he had “carried a ticket with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for six years,” he didn’t impress many IBEW members. It was like a...
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Corporate TV undermines elections
October 15, 2004Sinclair Broadcast Group has ordered its local television affiliates to preempt regular network broadcasts between Oct. 21-24 and devote one hour to an anti-John Kerry documentary, “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,” by a former Washington...
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N. Calif. PWW banquet says: Beat back Bush!
October 15, 2004OAKLAND, Calif. — The mood was both joyous and determined as Northern California supporters of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo gathered Oct. 8 to celebrate their favorite newspaper and to rededicate themselves to the banquet’s theme...
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Iron Range fired up
October 15, 2004HIBBING, Minn. — The 2004 presidential election is “historically far more important than any other … in my lifetime,” Steelworkers District 11 Director David Foster told a get-out-the-vote training session in the heart of Minnesota’s Iron...
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Bushonomics: 39 million locked in poverty
October 15, 20041 in 4 families are ‘working poor’ Report calls for minimum wage hike One in four working families in the U.S. “earn wages so low they have difficulty surviving financially,” charged a report released Oct. 12...
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