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One year after U.S. attack on Iraq: March 20 peace actions set

March 12, 2004 By Susan Webb

Beginning March 19 with nationwide lobbying of members of Congress, moving to vigils, marches and demonstrations on March 20, and culminating in a national call-in to Congress on March 24, Americans across the nation are mobilizing...

AFL-CIO president: Bush AWOL on jobs crisis

March 12, 2004

BAL HARBOR, Fla. – “The jobs crisis has become a national disaster,” said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. And during this crisis, “George Bush has been AWOL,” he added. Sweeney spoke at the federation’s annual winter conference...

Specter of Iraq haunts Tony Blair

March 11, 2004

Iraq has become Banquo’s ghost at the feast for Tony Blair, but unlike Macbeth, this time Blair cannot see the ghost and everyone else can. Despite trying to shift the agenda of British politics back to...

Leftist seeks Salvadoran presidency

March 11, 2004

As El Salvador’s March 21 presidential election draws closer, recent polls indicate that Schafik Handal, the candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), has a chance of winning the presidency. Handal, 73, is the...

Confronting grief with prayer and struggle

March 5, 2004

OAKLAND, Calif. – Lee Hamilton wears two buttons. Standing like many other working-class guys, with hands in his jeans’ pockets, sporting a sweatshirt and baseball cap emblazoned with “Meat Cutters Union,” he wore one small United...