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Bush administration targets Cuban churches

August 15, 2006

Church leaders the world over have objected to a misleading reference to the Cuban Council of Churches that appeared in the July 10 report from the President Bush’s “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba.” The...

Summer books and web sites

August 11, 2006

For your summer reading and surfing pleasure:“An Unreasonable Woman” by Diane Wilson (published by Chelsea Green). A true autobiographical story that is as engaging as a good novel. Written by a fourth-generation commercial fisherwoman in Texas...

Anti-capitalist classic

August 11, 2006

Movie Review The Devil Wears Prada Directed by David Frankel PG-13, 119 min., 2006 As I left the theater, I thought, I hated this movie. Yet it was one of the best movies I have seen...

The stroke of a corporate pen

August 11, 2006

Has the stroke of a corporate media pen attempted to define “working class” away in your city? Once again, it has in mine. A June 23 article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press illustrates the point...

Union split: sliced bread vs. the box

August 11, 2006

For the past year there has been a widening split within the ranks of American organized labor, and this split risks hardening as the new Change to Win (CTW) coalition increasingly takes on the complexion of...