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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    September 8, 2006

    This week’s clips are a brief roundup of a few of the hundreds of Labor Day parades, marches and picnics around the country.DALLAS: Labor breakfast, immigrant rights marchLabor Day in Dallas began with the annual AFL-CIO...

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  • Pilgrimage for justice: Immigrant rights activists march to House Speakers doorstep

    Pilgrimage for justice: Immigrant rights activists march to House Speakers doorstep

    September 8, 2006

    BATAVIA, Ill. — Bearing American flags and pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary while marching to the beat of Korean drummers, some 400 immigrant workers, their families and supporters walked 50 miles from Chicago to...

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  • Standoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico

    Standoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico

    September 7, 2006

    After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...

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  • Need protection from unions? Bush Department of Labor races to rescue

    Need protection from unions? Bush Department of Labor races to rescue

    September 1, 2006

    Anyone who feels that getting protection from their employers is taking away their “rights” will be relieved to learn that the United States Department of Labor, George W. Bush in charge, is racing to the rescue....

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  • Class struggle is a fact, not a theory

    Class struggle is a fact, not a theory

    September 1, 2006

    Let me make something perfectly clear up front. Along with some powerful disagreements, I have a great deal of respect for Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees union. He and his union have made and...

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