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  • Claudia Jones  Dynamic champion of equality

    Claudia Jones Dynamic champion of equality

    February 27, 2004

    Claudia Jones used her brief years (1915-1964) to the fullest. She was involved with everything and everyone having to do with the rights of African descendants and women. Born in Trinidad, Jones arrived in New York...

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  • March 4 action for health care rights

    March 4 action for health care rights

    February 27, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Jobs with Justice and hundreds of local unions, retiree groups and health care advocacy organizations, including the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN), have set a national “Health Care Action Day” to link workers’ struggles against...

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  • Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    February 27, 2004

    The big issue in our contract was health care, which is also the major issue in California, where 70,000 members of our union (United Food and Commercial Workers) are on strike. We took a collection in...

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  • Chicagoans to vote on liberties, jobs, Iraq

    Chicagoans to vote on liberties, jobs, Iraq

    February 27, 2004

    CHICAGO – Voters in Chicago’s 49th Ward in the northside community of Rogers Park will have their say on three urgent national issues – Bush’s attack on civil liberties, a federal jobs program, and the phase-out...

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  • Wall Street loves Bush budget

    Wall Street loves Bush budget

    February 27, 2004 By Art Perlo

    Under the Bush administration, the federal debt has reached record dollar amounts. The latest budget, which claims to cut the deficit in half in five years, is a work of fiction – under the Bush program,...

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