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Mercenaries cast dark shadows on U.S. democracy
June 1, 2007BOOK REVIEW When years ago Consolidation Coal, Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Steel created their own private armies, including Pinkertons, to keep the word “profits” always followed by the verb “skyrocketing,” and to keep workers under...
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LETTERS
June 1, 2007Stop cuts to HIV/AIDS care I work as a massage therapist for clients with AIDS and HIV at the CORE Center, which is an outpatient clinic that is part of Cook County Hospital. I am paid...
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EDITORIAL: Taking back America
June 1, 2007The Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) will convene its sixth annual “Take Back America” conference in Washington, D.C., June 18. Every year for the past five years thousands of union members, peace, civil and human rights...
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EDITORIAL: Reverse unequal pay ruling
June 1, 2007The U.S. Supreme Court’s extreme right majority handed down a decision May 29 crippling the right of women workers to win justice in pay discrimination cases. The court ruled 5-4 that women have 180 days to...
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Dead last: health care quality in the U.S.
June 1, 2007A few paragraphs in the executive summary of a new report quickly reveal the brutal truth: Among the six nations studied — Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States — the...
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