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  • Union support grows for Medicare for All

    Union support grows for Medicare for All

    June 18, 2004

    At its 33rd National Convention in Atlanta Memorial Day weekend, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists endorsed the United States National Health Insurance Act, HR 676, the single-payer health care bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers...

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  • Soldiers say Im not going back

    Soldiers say Im not going back

    June 18, 2004 By Susan Webb

    These days, GI rights counseling coordinator Bill Galvin is getting at least four or five calls a day from soldiers saying, “I’ve gotten orders to go to Iraq and I don’t want to go.” click here...

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  • U.S. Border Patrol rounds up hundreds on both coasts

    U.S. Border Patrol rounds up hundreds on both coasts

    June 18, 2004

    Immigrant communities in Southern California and New York City are reporting hundreds of immigrants arrested in a series of sweeps in recent weeks. Rev. Arnoldo Abelardo of La Placita Church in Los Angeles told the New...

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  • Labor fightback sweeps NYC

    Labor fightback sweeps NYC

    June 18, 2004

    NEW YORK – A four-day wave of labor fightback swept this city June 7-10, winning victories for thousands of health care workers and energizing other unions locked in battles with the city administration. Workers from American...

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  • We wont let Bush steal it again!

    We wont let Bush steal it again!

    June 18, 2004

    Florida voters sound alarm on voter purges Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s drive to purge 47,000 more voters from Florida’s voter rolls has touched off angry charges that he is scheming a replay of the 2000 election,...

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