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The World of Peggy Lipschutz: Women, workers, angels soul of her purposeful art
March 3, 2006Peggy Lipschutz, 87, picked up a small brush and eyed an unfinished painting. She added a dab of color to the figure of an older woman sitting in thought, with an angel in the background.
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Wars health impact vast, panel says
March 3, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — The U.S. health impact of the war in Iraq is extensive, sometimes subtle and extends beyond U.S. troops to their families and the public at large, a five-member panel warned a forum of...
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Wal-Mart and Henry Ford
March 3, 2006Wal-Mart is known for the huge profits it has accumulated for the Walton family and its Wall Street backers. It is also known for low pay and savage opposition to workers’ rights.
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THISWEEKINLABOR
March 3, 2006Bridgestone/Firestone blocks Steelworker solidarity Local management of a Bridgestone Firestone plant in LaVergne, Tenn., blocked the local union from making a plant gate collection to help struggling rubber farm workers in Liberia. United Steelworkers Local 1055,...
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WORLDNOTES
March 3, 2006Iraq: Healing the past and present The Iraqi Mobile Communist Clinic brought its medical expertise to the people in a special way on Communist Martyr Day, Feb. 14. The clinic set up shop in Baghdad at...
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