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Bush faces hard questions on 9/11 memos
May 25, 2002Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) called for an independent commission May 21 to investigate what the Bush administration knew about terrorist threats before Sept. 11 and why stronger measures were not taken to avert a...
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Solidarity key as lockout reaches 1,000 days
May 25, 2002MANSFIELD, Ohio – May 4 saw the fifth steelworkers’ rally held here since AKSteel locked out the union workers in 1999. On May 24, the Mansfield lockout turned 1,000 days old. Flanked by expressway on one...
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House bill punishes poor
May 25, 2002WASHINGTON – AFL-CIO President John Sweeney denounced the welfare bill approved by the House May 16 for sharply increasing workfare requirements while scrimping on support services like childcare for the working poor. “Ending poverty for families...
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Immigrant legalization campaign launched
May 25, 2002LOS ANGELES – In Los Angeles and 30 other cities, a broad national coalition of labor, community and religious organizations announced on May 15 an unprecedented grassroots campaign to urge President Bush and Congress to pass...
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Gujarat: An eyewitness report of state-sponsored terror
May 25, 2002”We the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens ….” – Preamble of the Indian constitution AHMEDABAD, India – In...
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