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Immokalee workers may launch boycott of McDs
March 30, 2007CHICAGO — Imagine waking up every morning, still dark outside, and then have to pick tomatoes for a typical 10-hour workday, seven days a week, in sweatshop conditions with armed guards watching over you. Sound back-breaking...
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German union backs U.S. Chrysler workers
March 30, 2007The 2.4-million-member IG Metall union, representing German blue- and white-collar metalworkers — including autoworkers at Daimler-Chrysler’s German plants — is opposing the company’s move to jettison its U.S. Chrysler division, and calling for a solution that...
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Party of hope archives show living history
March 30, 2007NEW YORK — This wasn’t your usual trip to the library. At New York University’s Tamiment Library, March 23, people jammed in to sit on folding chairs or stand shoulder-to-shoulder and listen to speakers tell of...
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Students sit in to save schools
March 30, 2007JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As hundreds of students, parents and concerned citizens chanted “No takeover,” the Missouri Board of Education voted 5-1 to strip accreditation from the 32,000-student St. Louis City Public Schools March 22. A...
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The Party of Hope
March 28, 2007Let me say that I am happy and proud to speak today at the opening of the Communist Party, USA’s papers at the Tamiment Library of NYU. I hope I do well because this really important...
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