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  • 100 days and counting: N. Calif. grocery workers ready for action

    100 days and counting: N. Calif. grocery workers ready for action

    May 28, 2004

    PLEASANTON, Calif. – Hundreds of workers from Safeway and other area grocery chains filled the space in front of Safeway’s corporate headquarters here with a sea of bright yellow T-shirts May 20, giving a resounding welcome...

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  • Travel groups defy Bushs Cuba policies

    Travel groups defy Bushs Cuba policies

    May 28, 2004

    Cuba has survived 45 years of U.S.-inspired military incursions, terrorist attacks, internal subversion, economic blockade, biological warfare, and diplomatic isolation, but Cuban leaders say worse is yet to come. In a May 14 interview with the...

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  • Puerto Ricans chart progressive agenda

    Puerto Ricans chart progressive agenda

    May 28, 2004

    BRONX, N.Y. – More than 250 Puerto Rican activists and leaders met here “to discuss the state of our communities” and to begin the development of a “progressive political agenda” for Puerto Ricans in 2004. The...

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  • Stop the torture! Fire Rumsfeld! Dump Bush!

    Stop the torture! Fire Rumsfeld! Dump Bush!

    May 28, 2004

    The National Board of the Communist Party USA released the following statement on May 23. The torture by U.S. military intelligence of Iraqi detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has ignited outrage at...

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  • Bush Iraq speech defends the indefensible

    Bush Iraq speech defends the indefensible

    May 28, 2004 By Susan Webb

    Longtime Philadelphia labor activist Jim Moran had little use for George W. Bush’s May 24 Iraq policy speech. “It didn’t score any points with me,” Moran said.

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