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  • Thousands pack San Francisco for immigrant rights march

    Thousands pack San Francisco for immigrant rights march

    April 29, 2006

    SAN FRANCISCO — The labor movement, the faith community, a broad spectrum of immigrant rights organizations and just plain folks joined in a river of 15,000 marchers that flooded city streets from the Mission District’s Dolores...

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  • Thousands roar support for jailed labor leader

    Thousands roar support for jailed labor leader

    April 29, 2006

    NEW YORK — Throngs of supporters gathered around Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint as he led a huge April 24 march over the Brooklyn Bridge to the Manhattan jail where he began serving...

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  • Labor boosts peace rally

    Labor boosts peace rally

    April 29, 2006

    PHILADELPHIA — “New York peace rally drawing broad labor support” reads the headline of a story on the web site of the 700,000-member Communications Workers of America. According to the article, the CWA executive board voted...

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  • Immigration raids escalate fight over rights

    Immigration raids escalate fight over rights

    April 28, 2006

    Supporters of immigrant rights are reacting with anger to last week’s large-scale immigration raids, and calling for all raids and deportations to be stopped and for legislation legalizing undocumented workers to be supported. On April 19...

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  • Immigrants rights are workers rights: Labor backs May 1 immigrant rights rally

    Immigrants rights are workers rights: Labor backs May 1 immigrant rights rally

    April 28, 2006

    CHICAGO — In the city of May Day’s birth, labor unions pledged to support the May 1 immigrant rights rally here. WithHaymarket Square as a backdrop, the president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, Dennis Gannon,...

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