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  • PUSH for peace

    PUSH for peace

    March 13, 2003

    CHICAGO – Rev. Jesse Jackson called March 8 “Peace Day” at his weekly rally and television broadcast at the Rainbow Coalition/Operation PUSH national headquarters. The event marked a new coalition between peace, religious, labor, youth and...

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  • UNITE to organize Cintas industrial laundry

    UNITE to organize Cintas industrial laundry

    March 13, 2003

    HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Victor Hidalgo is a man on a mission. Even though the outspoken father of four was fired from his job as an unloader at a Cintas industrial laundry facility in Connecticut, he still...

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  • Russell Brodine, musician and organizer, 1912-2003

    Russell Brodine, musician and organizer, 1912-2003

    March 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    ROSLYN, Wash. – Russell Victor Brodine a musician, union organizer, and longtime member of the Communist Party USA died here Feb. 12. He was 90.

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  • Alvena Seckar, walking the path of artistic activism

    Alvena Seckar, walking the path of artistic activism

    March 7, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

    “I wish I would have been more active in the movement,” Alvena Seckar said earnestly. My jaw dropped – collectively or, in part, her body of work epitomizes the very meaning of political activism.

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  • Women and capitalism

    Women and capitalism

    March 7, 2003

    One hundred twenty-eight years after the first protest of New York city’s women garment workers, against sweatshop work, the life and working conditions of women in most parts of the world are still the same and...

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