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Farm workers win big in North Carolina
September 24, 2004Eight thousand farm workers won union recognition Sept. 16 with the signing of what the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) called the largest union contract in North Carolina history. The pact with the North Carolina Growers’...
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Northern California: Peace leader to be honored at banquet
September 24, 2004Honored at the Northern California Friends of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo “Beat-Back-Bush” banquet Friday, Oct. 8, will be Fernando Suarez del Solar, a founding member of Military Families Speak Out whose son died in Iraq....
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In Ohio, job losses loom large
September 24, 2004CLEVELAND — Industrial plants continue to close down, and the official unemployment rate goes up. This is the real situation faced by Ohio’s working families as they go into the home stretch of the 2004 election...
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Election boards swamped with new voter sign-ups
September 24, 2004Groups demand speedy action to protect vote The broad-based coalition seeking to defeat George W. Bush has registered millions of new voters and the flood continues, swamping state election boards even as deadlines near for signing...
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GRASSROOTS POWER
September 17, 2004Editor’s Note: Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are knocking on doors across the country to defeat Bush. Many are young people and first-time activists. In the next six issues, the PWW will publish voices from this...
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