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    Editorials

    April 22, 2005

    Just do your job When a woman walks into pharmacy she expects the druggist to fill the prescription. But one Chicago woman was stunned to find a pharmacist that refused to fill her prescription for contraceptives....

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  • With Gladys, We’ll win a thousand times

    With Gladys, We’ll win a thousand times

    April 22, 2005 By Juan Lopez

    It was with a heavy heart that I arrived in Chile. Compañera Gladys Marin, president of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC), had died March 6 of a brain tumor. She was 63. Communist and workers...

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  • Service workers tell UC: Living wage now!

    Service workers tell UC: Living wage now!

    April 22, 2005

    BERKELEY, Calif. — Hundreds of striking service workers, other campus workers, students and faculty gathered on the steps of International House on the University of California–Berkeley campus April 14 to greet incoming UC Chancellor Robert Birgeneau...

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  • NAACP launches SOS: Save our Social Security

    NAACP launches SOS: Save our Social Security

    April 22, 2005

    When the hawk advises the chicken that its eggs are better off in the hawk’s nest, it makes sense to be suspicious. Perhaps with that proverb in mind, NAACP chairman Julian Bond and other African American...

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  • Greet world peace activists in NYC on May 1

    Greet world peace activists in NYC on May 1

    April 22, 2005

    NEW YORK — U.S. peace activists will have a chance to interact with their counterparts from around the world at a May Day friendship and solidarity reception here sponsored by the Communist Party USA and the...

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