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February 20, 2004Government adopts ‘Wal-Mart’ personnel policies Hundreds of federal workers, members of American Federation of Government Employees, took to Capitol Hill last week to protest a new personnel plan for the Department of Defense that would eliminate...
Read moreMomentum builds for March 20 peace rallies
February 20, 2004NEW YORK – Preparations are well under way for another major display of antiwar sentiment here on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. “People are responding to this because...
Read moreSoldiers dad: Aid needed for Baghdad hospital
February 20, 2004SAN DIEGO – Fernando Suárez del Solar is a man with a mission. Meeting this determined and compassionate father at a local social justice center here (a pink house on a working-class street corner) evokes a...
Read moreIn slap at Bush, Senate to probe WMD lies
February 19, 2004The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence handed President Bush a direct challenge when it announced Feb. 12 that it will investigate whether Bush and other top officials misused and manipulated intelligence to make a case for...
Read moreSouth Carolinians fight for free speech
February 19, 2004CHARLESTON, S.C. – When George W. Bush spoke at a waterfront terminal here Feb. 5, two days after the South Carolina primary, scores of protesters picketed outside chanting “U.S. out of Iraq.” The demonstration was sponsored...
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