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Fighting like hell to stop county cuts
February 9, 2007This testimony was presented to the Cook County, Ill., Board of Commissioners at a public hearing Jan. 29 in Chicago.The proposed $500 million in cuts will severely affect every county service and devastate the county’s public...
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LETTERS
February 9, 2007Support Agustin Aguayo At the rally for Lt. Watada, I heard both the wife and mother of war resister Agustin Aguayo speak. It was really moving. His wife asked that we ask everyone we know to...
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EDITORIAL: The courage of Paul Robeson
February 9, 2007In February we celebrate African American History Month. That history has given us some of humanity’s greatest freedom fighters: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks, and Dr. Martin Luther King...
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EDITORIAL: Senate battleground
February 9, 2007The people, at the ballot box, in the halls of Capitol Hill and in the streets, have demanded that Congress act on the Iraq war, the minimum wage and other pressing issues. Just this week, Democrats...
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Another fast track to the unemployment line?
February 9, 2007President Bush has asked Congress for approval of “fast track” authority. Fast track means that the president negotiates a trade agreement and Congress cannot make any changes in it; they can only vote it up or...
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