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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    July 19, 2002

    Letter carriers as spies? Soldiers as cops? The Bush administration is moving ahead so fast in its attacks on the Bill of Rights in the name of the “war on terrorism” that it is keeping the...

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  • Wellstone opposes privatizing Social Security

    Wellstone opposes privatizing Social Security

    July 19, 2002

    ST. PAUL, Minn. – Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) lashed out at Bush administration plans to privatize Social Security at a July 15 press conference here. “After all that we have seen over the last weeks on...

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  • The ILWU longshore contract by the numbers

    The ILWU longshore contract by the numbers

    July 19, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

    The longshore workers who load and unload the cargo ships on the West Coast are locked in a struggle for a new contract. Their union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), is under attack by...

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  • The ILWU longshore contract by the numbers

    The ILWU longshore contract by the numbers

    July 19, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

    The longshore workers who load and unload the cargo ships on the West Coast are locked in a struggle for a new contract. Their union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), is under attack by...

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  • Senate passes accounting bill

    Senate passes accounting bill

    July 19, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    The battle to rein in corporate fraud by toughening accounting standards moved to the House of Representatives during the week of July 15 after clearing the Senate by a vote of 97-0.

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