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New Yorks Labor Day parade
September 16, 2005NEW YORK — As many as 200,000 people marched Sept. 10 in New York City’s Labor Day parade, including workers from all the city’s unions, anti-Wal-Mart activists, elected leaders, mayoral hopefuls — and People’s Weekly World/Nuestro...
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Venezuela exports solidarity: Citgo sponsors Puerto Rican festival
September 9, 2005CHICAGO — Fiesta Boricua, the annual Puerto Rican community festival in Humboldt Park here, got a lifeline from an unusual source. Venezuelan-owned Citgo donated $100,000, half of the festival’s cost, so the show could go forward...
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Letters
September 9, 2005Stop corporate looters There should be no profiteering permitted off of the suffering of the people in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi and elsewhere because of the hurricane and flood. I have called on N.J. Sen. Jon...
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Labor Update
September 9, 2005A storm of solidarity AFL-CIO unions are recruiting 1,000 rank-and-file members across the country to provide assistance in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Volunteers can sign up at www.aflcio.org/hurricane. Delegates to the Communications Workers convention voted...
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Labor activists question mayoral endorsement
September 9, 2005News Analysis NEW YORK — Labor activists are puzzled as to why a few important unions here have given their endorsement to incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the upcoming mayoral election. His tenure has been marked...
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