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  • Privatization a mortal threat to humanity

    Privatization a mortal threat to humanity

    May 14, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    In his 2004 State of the Union address, President Bush defended the Republican Party’s fundamental aims when it comes to health care: privatization and profit.

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  • Employers not paying overtime

    Employers not paying overtime

    May 14, 2004

    Art Perlo’s article on “Getting paid for overtime” (PWW, 5/1-6) was great. I’ve been working as a driver/helper in Pittsburgh’s retail floral industry for the past 10 years or so. Flower shops are mostly family-owned and...

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  • Forum looks at high tech job flight

    Forum looks at high tech job flight

    May 14, 2004

    TUCSON – An attentive crowd gathered May 2 in the basement of Tucson’s public library to attend a community forum on “Globalization, High Tech and Employment,” sponsored by Jobs in Crisis, a committee of the Tucson...

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  • Torture in Iraq: The buck stops with Bush

    Torture in Iraq: The buck stops with Bush

    May 14, 2004

    George W. Bush and his minions are toiling to contain worldwide outrage over the torture of hundreds of Iraqi detainees by U.S. occupation soldiers at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Slip-sliding to shift blame to a...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    May 14, 2004

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla.: Vote stealers are at it again The infamous Florida Board of Elections, now an agency under control of President Bush’s brother Jeb, Florida’s governor, ordered 40,000 potential voters purged from the registration rolls, May...

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