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Gulf Coast Update
December 15, 2006Labor steps up for ‘young men of color’ Two court wins for Katrina survivors Government to raze public housing
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Bay Area unions support Alcatraz ferry workers
December 15, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — A thousand workers from unions throughout the Bay Area joined in a march and rally on this city’s historic waterfront Dec. 9. The action supported union workers who lost their jobs when ferry...
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Gaza journalist spotlights crimes of Israeli occupation
December 15, 2006NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — “You can get a phone call with a recorded message in a broken Arabic language … ‘Evacuate your house, we are coming to destroy it,’” said Mohammed Omer. Omer, a 22-year-old journalist...
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Labor against war meets in Cleveland
December 15, 2006CLEVELAND — “Just look at how far we’ve come in just three years,” remarked Gene Bruskin, co-convener of U.S. Labor Against the War, to hundreds of union representatives at the opening of the group’s annual conference...
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James and Esther Jackson: shapers of history
December 15, 2006The symposium “James and Esther Jackson, the American Left and the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement” at the Tamiment Library of New York University on Oct. 28 was an event of singular enlightenment and...
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