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Black unionists urge new social contract
May 25, 2007CHICAGO — Dismantling of the corporate agenda is the big mission that the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) took on as it opened its 36th International Convention here May 23 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel....
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Earths last best hope
May 25, 2007Last week’s column examined why capitalism has not stopped environmental destruction, despite protests, local victories and treaties like Kyoto. Profound economic, political and social forces make capitalism incapable of doing so, just as they block its...
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Laundry workers vow to strike till we win
May 25, 2007CHICAGO — Some 20 laundry workers who have been on strike since last July at Lechner and Sons, a uniform-rental and industrial laundering company in nearby Mount Prospect, Ill., joined with community and labor leaders to...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
May 25, 2007PORTLAND, Maine: Impeach Bush/Cheney drive gets boost The Woodfords Club is not a smoke-filled room. Opened in 1913, the quaint picture postcard New England private club hosted a May 19 rally of over 200 calling for...
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Wolfowitz ouster reflects bigger problems
May 25, 2007The scandal that led to the forced resignation of Iraq war guru Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank “is just the tip of the iceberg,” Nadia Martinez, who co-directs the Institute for Policy Studies’...
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