News
Labor victory in California casino vote
September 15, 2006SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gambling interests could not muster enough State Assembly votes to ram through confirmation of a new Native American gambling casino agreement at the end of the 2006 California legislative session. The legislation would...
Read more
Conn. machinists rally for Ned Lamont
September 15, 2006EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — “This campaign has become a crusade for machinists all across America,” declared R. Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, at a Labor Day weekend rally here...
Read more
Tentative pact reached in Detroit teachers strike
September 15, 2006DETROIT — After 16 days on the picket line, the unity of 9,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 231 finally forced school officials to agree to a tentative pact potentially ending the strike here...
Read more
NATIONAL CLIPS
September 15, 2006LOUISVILLE, Ky.: Honor 9/11 victims with peace On Sept. 11, 1906, Mahatma Gandhi launched his first nonviolent protest in South Africa before returning to his native India to use nonviolence in the successful campaign which freed...
Read more
Black Caucus: End war, rebuild New Orleans, vote Nov. 7
September 15, 2006WASHINGTON — Whether the topic was violence in Baghdad or the lack of funds to rebuild New Orleans, the theme at the Congressional Black Caucus 36th Legislative Conference Sept. 6-9 was “changing course,” as the title...
Read more