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EDITORIAL: Taking back America
June 1, 2007The Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) will convene its sixth annual “Take Back America” conference in Washington, D.C., June 18. Every year for the past five years thousands of union members, peace, civil and human rights...
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EDITORIAL: Reverse unequal pay ruling
June 1, 2007The U.S. Supreme Court’s extreme right majority handed down a decision May 29 crippling the right of women workers to win justice in pay discrimination cases. The court ruled 5-4 that women have 180 days to...
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Saying no to foreign military bases
June 1, 2007The International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases was formally established at a conference in Quito and Manta, Ecuador, March 5-9. Over 400 grassroots and community-based activists were in attendance from more than 40...
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Dead last: health care quality in the U.S.
June 1, 2007A few paragraphs in the executive summary of a new report quickly reveal the brutal truth: Among the six nations studied — Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States — the...
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Workers rally to build justice at Pulte
June 1, 2007BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Led by several Latino construction workers from the Southwest and by Robert Masciola of the national AFL-CIO, an informational rally was held outside of the shareholders meeting of Pulte Homes, Inc., at the...
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