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EDITORIAL: Pilgrims without papers
November 16, 2007Three hundred and eighty-six years ago a group of undocumented immigrants and native-born Americans feasted together for three days to celebrate a successful harvest made possible by mutual cooperation. Yes, those Pilgrims showed up in Massachusetts...
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EDITORIAL: Costs of racism
November 16, 2007An important part of what is often called “the American dream” is the ability of successive generations to climb the economic ladder. With workers’ productivity rising decade by decade, that should be the reality for working-class...
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Two tales of one city: First the death, now the resurrection
November 16, 2007NEW ORLEANS — It wasn’t the hurricane that almost killed this city. From day one, after Katrina, the Bush administration used this town as a laboratory to experiment with every type of right-wing social engineering scheme...
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From Oregon to Virginia, voters reject Republican right
November 16, 2007Voters in the Nov. 6 off-year election made clear once again that they are fed up with the pro-corporate policies of the Republican right and looking for positive changes like ending the Iraq war, rooting out...
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House votes to ban anti-gay bias at work
November 16, 2007On Nov. 7, the House of Representatives passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a historic civil rights measure that would bar discrimination against workers in hiring, firing, or promotion based on sexual orientation. The vote was...
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