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  • Kennedy challenges Smithfield, Homeland Security

    Kennedy challenges Smithfield, Homeland Security

    February 23, 2007

    The firing of workers trying to unionize at the Smithfield meat packing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., has prompted Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security. The senator has urged...

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  • Still an open wound

    Still an open wound

    February 23, 2007

    In late January, a Mississippi man was arrested for a 1965 murder. James Seale, now 71, was arrested on kidnapping charges related to killing two Black teenagers, who were tied to trees, whipped and drowned. Seale’s...

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  • The Iranian people totally reject war

    The Iranian people totally reject war

    February 23, 2007

    The similarity between events taking place in recent months and those in the period between August 2002 and March 2003 is terrifying. The emotive charge of Iranian involvement in support of terrorist activities in Iraq costing...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    February 23, 2007

    We want to hear from you! By e-mail: pww @ pww.org Subject: Letter to Editor Or by mail: People’s Weekly World Letter to Editor 3339 S. Halsted St. Chicago IL 60608 Letters should be limited to...

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  • Yales hospital: Poster child for union-busting

    Yales hospital: Poster child for union-busting

    February 23, 2007

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is 650 miles from the notorious anti-worker Smithfield Foods livestock processing factory in Tar Heel, N.C. On Smithfield’s killing floors and in New Haven’s healing wards, the workers...

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