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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    March 2, 2007

    Fact check on Venezuela Here’s a fact check on U.S. government and corporate media statements on the Venezuelan “threat.” Condoleezza Rice, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Fox News, to name but a few, all warn of the Venezuelan...

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  • EDITORIAL: Wall Street tumbles …

    EDITORIAL: Wall Street tumbles …

    March 2, 2007

    The question, “Are we heading into a recession?” has been hanging like a dark cloud over Wall Street since the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 416 points Feb. 27, the stock market’s worst day since Sept....

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  • Freedoms road includes the right to organize

    Freedoms road includes the right to organize

    March 2, 2007

    The continuing effort by the world’s largest meatpacking giant to keep out a union has been transformed by its workers into a drive in Congress to streamline the way all American workers win the right to...

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  • Ford workers call for green jobs

    Ford workers call for green jobs

    March 2, 2007 By Barb Kucera

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (PAI) — Minnesota’s United Auto Workers are taking their fight to save jobs at the St. Paul Ford plant to the state Capitol, where proposed legislation would require the company to maintain the...

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  • Workers Correspondence

    Workers Correspondence

    March 2, 2007

    To: Union supporters of HR 676 single-payer health care Re: Reintroduction of HR 676 in the 110th CongressSeveral readers forwarded this communication. On Jan. 24, 2007, Congressman John Conyers reintroduced HR 676, the single-payer National Health...

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