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  • Privatizing Social Security will hurt women

    Privatizing Social Security will hurt women

    January 14, 2005

    OPINIONThese remarks were delivered at a joint press conference at the National Press Club, Dec. 16, 2004, with leaders of the AFL-CIO, NAACP and others. It’s a pleasure to be here as part of such a...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    January 14, 2005

    Don’t yield an inch The following is from an action letter from Working Families e-Activist Network. President George W. Bush, his Republican allies in Congress and corporate chiefs are on an ideological trophy hunt to destroy...

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  • 40 years after Selma’s Bloody Sunday

    40 years after Selma’s Bloody Sunday

    January 14, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

    The struggle for voting rights continues Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) defended the legacy of martyrs who died for voting rights when they blocked, for a few hours,...

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  • Panamanians rally on anniversary of U.S. invasion

    Panamanians rally on anniversary of U.S. invasion

    January 14, 2005

    PANAMA CITY, Panama — Hundreds of Panamanians rallied here on Dec. 20 to observe the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of their country and to express their growing concern about the Pentagon’s increased activity in...

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  • Abbas elected head of Palestinian Authority

    Abbas elected head of Palestinian Authority

    January 14, 2005

    As had been widely expected, Mahmoud Abbas won the election for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority on Jan. 9, filling the vacancy left by Yasser Arafat’s death in early November. “We offer this victory to...

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