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  • World says No to war

    World says No to war

    March 14, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

    Growing opposition to a U.S. war against Iraq was clearly in evidence on March 10 when MoveOn.org, Win Without War, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Artists United to Win Without War delivered petitions bearing...

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  • Labor leader wins Los Angeles Council seat

    Labor leader wins Los Angeles Council seat

    March 13, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    LOS ANGELES – Former Speaker of the State Assembly Antonio Villaraigosa made history on March 4 when he won an East Los Angeles seat in the 14th council district of the nation’s second largest city.

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  • Latino communities say no to war

    Latino communities say no to war

    March 13, 2003 By Brandi Lea Kishner

    CHICAGO – Virtually every leader and spokesperson of the Mexican, Mexican American and Puerto Rican communities here have spoken out against the Bush administration’s war on Iraq. Congressman Luis Gutierrez voted against the war resolution in...

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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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