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  • Support our troops: bring them home now!

    Support our troops: bring them home now!

    June 11, 2004 By Marilyn Bechtel

    Events on both coasts last week reflected the worry growing throughout the country about the impact on soldiers and their families of ever-lengthening deployments in Iraq and Kuwait.

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  • Workers confront Visteon violence

    Workers confront Visteon violence

    June 11, 2004

    BEDFORD, Ind. – To workers on the mass picket line at the Visteon auto parts plant here, it seems like the company, a Ford spin-off, has planned long and hard to systematically slash their wages and...

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  • Thousands at D.C. meeting say: Take back America

    Thousands at D.C. meeting say: Take back America

    June 11, 2004

    WASHINGTON – Over 2,000 participants in a “Take Back America” conference here June 2-4 cheered speakers who urged a bolder, pro-peace, pro-worker, pro-equality program to rally voters against George W. Bush and the Republican right in...

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  • Will there be a Day After Tomorrow?

    Will there be a Day After Tomorrow?

    June 4, 2004

    Movie Review “‘The Day After Tomorrow’ has one of the most absurd and implausible plot turns I’ve seen in a movie, ever,” writes David Edelstein in his review for Slate magazine. “Global warming melts the polar...

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  • Lessons from NAFTA: Workers pay the price for free trade

    Lessons from NAFTA: Workers pay the price for free trade

    June 4, 2004

    Book Review Lessons from NAFTA: The High Cost of Free Trade Edited by Kareb Hansen-Kuhn and Steve Hellinger 133 pp., 2003 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (75 Albert Street, Suite 410; Ottawa, ON, K1P 5E7, Canada)...

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