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  • Pharmacists, labor and seniors oppose medicine cuts

    Pharmacists, labor and seniors oppose medicine cuts

    August 9, 2002

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Representatives of labor, seniors and the California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) sent California governor Gray Davis a boxful of empty medicine bottles with labels opposing “Appalling cuts to balance the budget on the backs...

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  • Chicagoans march for affordable housing

    Chicagoans march for affordable housing

    August 9, 2002

    CHICAGO – A thousand people, mostly from Chicago’s Westside, marched on City Hall July 29 for affordable housing. The crowd, chanting wildly and jumping vibrantly, denounced their mayor for continuing to let developers destroy their neighborhoods,...

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  • Janitors reject poverty wages

    Janitors reject poverty wages

    August 9, 2002

    ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 50 held a press conference here Aug. 2, announcing that two companies who provide cleaning services at the Thomas Eagleton Federal Court House have not...

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  • Prisons need strong public health care

    Prisons need strong public health care

    August 9, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Over the past decade, detection and prevention programs have made significant headway in stopping the spread of Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. In Black, Latino and other racially and nationally oppressed communities, though, both diseases are still...

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  • Prisons need strong public health care

    Prisons need strong public health care

    August 9, 2002

    Over the past decade, detection and prevention programs have made significant headway in stopping the spread of Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. In Black, Latino and other racially and nationally oppressed communities, though, both diseases are still...

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