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Victory! France scraps anti-labor law

April 14, 2006

French President Jacques Chirac bowed April 10 to the pressure of millions of students and workers marching across France and withdrew a hated law granting employers the right to fire a young worker at will for...

Today we march, tomorrow we vote 2 million immigrants & supporters stand up for equality & justice

April 14, 2006

NEW YORK — In the city that is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, 125,000 people, native- and foreign-born alike, turned out April 10 for a historic National Day of Action for Immigrant...

Silenced again: My Name is Rachel Corrie postponed indefinitely

April 7, 2006

New York City is known throughout the world as a bastion of free artistic expression. That is, apparently, unless the art is about the struggle of the Palestinian people. Or at least that was the message...

EDITORIAL: Tax justice

April 7, 2006

As Americans scramble to file their tax returns by the April 15 deadline, a new tax study got us angry. A New York Times analysis of Internal Revenue Service data shows that President Bush’s tax cuts...

Injuries lead nurses to quit. Union launches drive for state regs

April 7, 2006

Saying huge numbers of on-the-job injuries from lifting and turning patients causes ever-increasing legions of nurses to quit, American Federation of Teachers’ nurses division launched a drive for state legislation mandating that hospitals install devices to...