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What foreign language threat?
June 29, 2007The town of Carpentersville, Ill., has passed a resolution declaring English to be its “official language.” This happened in the context of a yearlong battle in which a faction of the town’s government has been trying...
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June 30 LETTERS
June 29, 2007Hey, Verizon, let the workers decide On June 19, there was a demonstration of about 50 union members in front of the Verizon Wireless building in Tampa, Fla. Verizon has said it does not want its...
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Editorial: Watering the Tree of Liberty
June 29, 2007The signers of the Declaration of Independence must be turning in their graves this July 4th over the shredding of basic democratic rights by corporate right-wing politicians in Washington. The picture is so bad that thousands,...
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Editorial: EFCA fight has just begun
June 29, 2007Though the Employee Free Choice Act could not gain the 60 Senate votes needed to end debate June 26 and move to a decision on final passage, its backing by a 51-48 majority contains hope for...
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New Mexico labor focuses on 2008 elections
June 29, 2007ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From the opening remarks by New Mexico AFL-CIO President Christine Trujillo to the speeches of various dignitaries at the state labor federation’s biannual convention here, June 15-16, it’s clear the labor movement is...
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