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Farm workers win big in North Carolina

September 24, 2004

Eight thousand farm workers won union recognition Sept. 16 with the signing of what the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) called the largest union contract in North Carolina history. The pact with the North Carolina Growers’...

In Ohio, job losses loom large

September 24, 2004

CLEVELAND — Industrial plants continue to close down, and the official unemployment rate goes up. This is the real situation faced by Ohio’s working families as they go into the home stretch of the 2004 election...

GRASSROOTS POWER

September 17, 2004

Editor’s Note: Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are knocking on doors across the country to defeat Bush. Many are young people and first-time activists. In the next six issues, the PWW will publish voices from this...

America the Beautiful a call to struggle

September 17, 2004 By Tim Yeager

In 1893, a 34-year-old English teacher from Massachusetts rode a mule to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. As she stood at the summit, she beheld the vista of the Great Plains spreading out to...

Letters

September 17, 2004

Arnold got it wrong The following is an open letter sent to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. On behalf of “girlie men” everywhere I’m perplexed. Last night while you were speaking at the Republican National Convention, you...