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November 7, 2003Candidates support clemency? I feel it is an important stipulation for potential endorsers to ask whether the presidential candidate supports clemency for American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier. So far, Carol Moseley Braun, former senator from...
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November 7, 2003Fuzzy economics George W. Bush’s claim that his tax cuts to the super-rich are what’s behind the “spectacular” economic growth of 7.2 percent from July-September is fuzzy economics. The fact is there are two ways to...
Read moreBlame profits, not workers, for high health costs
November 7, 2003The issue of corporate greed in health care is beginning to make its way into the mass media, thanks in good part to the blatant price-gouging of the pharmaceutical companies.
Read morePratt & Whitney workers fight to save jobs
November 7, 2003Workers’ correspondence International Association of Machinists sisters and brothers at the profitable United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney plant in Connecticut are fighting hard for their jobs. On Oct. 3, materials workers at Pratt voted “no”...
Read moreCity workers rally for justice
November 7, 2003NEW YORK – This city’s workers have not had a raise in over two years and need one now to pay the rent and put food on the table, declared Lillian Roberts, executive director of American...
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