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Labor Update
July 22, 2005Tune in to AFL-CIO convention Even if you’re not in town, you can tune in via the web to the AFL-CIO convention, which runs July 25-28 in Chicago. An Internet alert from the Working Families e-Activist...
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July 15, 2005Bring troops home now As I go knocking door-to-door talking about public education issues, including military recruitment in the schools, I meet a lot of parents that have sons or daughters in Afghanistan or Iraq. They...
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July 15, 2005CP convention endorses Employee Free Choice Act CHICAGO — Delegates to the Communist Party’s 28th Convention, held here over the Fourth of July weekend, voted unanimously with a storm of applause to endorse the Employee Free...
Read moreHurricane Dennis lashes Cuba
July 15, 2005July hurricanes are rare — Cuba has faced only three in the past 205 years. Dennis hit Cuba July 8 along the island’s southern coast, with rains up to 30 inches in some places and winds...
Read moreMoral pharmacists
July 10, 2005In the year 2005, it’s outrageous to see women’s reproductive freedom would be in such grave danger. With a Supreme Court resignation and Republicans threatening to use the “nuclear option” to railroad extremist judicial nominees through...
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