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  • Dr. King showed worker rights are civil rights

    Dr. King showed worker rights are civil rights

    February 23, 2007

    The following is excerpted from the remarks of Roger Toussaint, president of New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, on the occasion of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration, Jan. 15.Today is a special...

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    February 23, 2007

    CARSON CITY, Nev.: Do the right thing for homeless Tents and cardboard shelters sprouted up on the lot next to the state’s Legislative Building, Feb. 18, as over 200 homeless people, advocates, religious leaders and three...

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  • Profits up, but Chrysler cuts

    Profits up, but Chrysler cuts

    February 23, 2007

    FENTON, Mo. — An autoworker who is a member of the Missouri Legislature says Chrysler’s announcement that it is gutting 1,300 jobs from its South Assembly Plant here has “more to do with the bargaining climate...

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  • Falsehoods about immigrant workers

    Falsehoods about immigrant workers

    February 16, 2007

    Historians call the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 a tragic part of our history. With this act, Chinese workers were denied citizenship. Despite the words on the Statue of Liberty and the principles of democracy, it...

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  • The Bush library: who needs it?

    The Bush library: who needs it?

    February 16, 2007

    George W. Bush has selected Southern Methodist University in Dallas to maintain and extend his political legacy. In addition to the most expensive presidential library in history, the Bushites plan to add a “think tank,” sometimes...

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