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  • EDITORIAL: Modern day poll tax

    EDITORIAL: Modern day poll tax

    October 13, 2006

    Last month, before congressional Republicans headed home to try to hold onto their seats, the GOP leadership pushed through the House the hypocritically labeled “Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006,” HR 4844. Sponsored by right-wing Illinois...

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  • Fighting to close the torture college

    Fighting to close the torture college

    October 13, 2006

    The School of the Americas (SOA) is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located in Fort Benning, Ga. It has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers since 1946. After the Pentagon was forced to...

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  • Bushs reckless, imperial foreign policy

    Bushs reckless, imperial foreign policy

    October 13, 2006

    A March 2006 Council on Foreign Relations task force report on Russia, co-chaired by Jack Kemp and John Edwards, recommended the United States adopt a Cold War approach toward Russia. According to the task force, Russian...

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  • THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    October 13, 2006

    RNs threaten strike for union rights Thirty thousand members of the California Nurses Association have signed strike pledges putting employers in all CNA-represented facilities on notice that RN’s will strike any employer who seeks to exploit...

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  • Teacher-student strike wave sweeps Greece

    Teacher-student strike wave sweeps Greece

    October 13, 2006

    ATHENS, Greece — The nationwide public school system here has been virtually shut down as preschool and primary school teachers enter the fourth week of their strike, high school teachers conduct two-day work stoppages, and junior...

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