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October 10, 2003Support ‘Marriage Equality’ Bush’s support of “Marriage Protection Week” is a public relations ploy developed by a right-wing coalition bent on denying same-sex couples equal legal protection under the law. These groups claim they merely wish...
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October 10, 2003Stand up, keep fighting While it’s too soon to offer a full analysis of the recall of Calif. Gov. Gray Davis and his replacement by Arnold Schwarzenegger, some factors are fairly clear: • Anger over the...
Read moreCuban foreign minister speaks in Harlem
October 10, 2003NEW YORK – Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Felipe Pérez Roque made a powerful indictment of the United States’ role in harassing and blackmailing the Cuban people and government throughout the last 40 years when he...
Read moreCongress vetoes Bush attack on overtime
October 10, 2003The House of Representatives dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke Oct. 2 by approving a measure that could lead to the reversal of the president’s move to strip overtime pay protections from as many as...
Read moreCourt upholds pension rights
October 10, 2003RTI steelworkers won a major victory when Judge Peter Economus ruled Sept. 30 that the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the federal agency set up to protect worker’s pensions, illegally refused to pay pensions when RTI...
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