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  • Surprise! Bushs budget attacks working people

    Surprise! Bushs budget attacks working people

    August 23, 2004

    Bush is going after workers when they are hurting most. In a period of high unemployment, growing length of unemployment, cuts in wages and benefits, and increased job insecurity under globalization and outsourcing, working people need...

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  • Bushs flex time/comp time hoax

    Bushs flex time/comp time hoax

    August 23, 2004 By John Sweeney

    President George W. Bush’s call for “flex time” and “comp time” is really about giving America’s corporations the flexibility to cheat their workers out of overtime pay after 40 hours a week.

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  • A maturing of the peoples movement

    A maturing of the peoples movement

    August 23, 2004

    Perhaps this convention season’s most under-reported story is the outpouring of thousands of activists into Boston during the Democratic National Convention for conferences, teach-ins, strategy sessions, get-out-the-vote trainings, religious services and cultural events including a hip...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    August 23, 2004

    Gospel according to John The Lord has a way of revealing those of us who really know him, and those who don’t! Think about it! Bush gave a big speech last week about how his faith...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    August 23, 2004

    The Olympic Games The 2004 Olympic Games opened in Athens Aug. 13 with pageantry befitting the return of the games to the land of their birth (in 776 B.C.). Athens last hosted the Olympics in 1896...

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