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  • Welfare groups rally in D.C.

    Welfare groups rally in D.C.

    February 8, 2002

    WASHINGTON – Lawmakers were so busy Feb. 5 with the Enron debacle they had no time to hear from 300 poor people from across the country here to demand jobs or benefits to support their children....

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  • Labor confronts World Economic Forum

    Labor confronts World Economic Forum

    February 8, 2002

    NEW YORK – “The global economy does not work for working people and that is why we are here in New York to challenge Enron economics at home and abroad,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told the...

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  • Another world is possible

    Another world is possible

    February 8, 2002 By John Sweeney

    On Jan. 31, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney warned the World Economic Forum (WEF) that working people had come to the group’s annual meeting, held Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, to “challenge Enron economics at home and...

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  • 20,000 tell world forum people before profits

    20,000 tell world forum people before profits

    February 8, 2002

    March is peaceful NEW YORK – Over 20,000 peaceful protestors converged on the Waldorf-Astoria hotel here last weekend to protest the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting being held there. The WEF, which traditionally meets in Davos,...

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  • CAMP soups up fundraising

    CAMP soups up fundraising

    February 1, 2002

    ST. LOUIS – The Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP) held a “Soup-Er Bowl Party” Jan. 27 to raise funds for a building it hopes to purchase here. CAMP is a cooperative consisting of the St....

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