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  • Iraqi workers still denied basic rights

    Iraqi workers still denied basic rights

    February 13, 2004

    PHILADELPHIA – While Iraqi workers currently face daunting conditions such as spiraling inflation and 70 percent unemployment, they are refusing to let restrictive, anti-labor laws stop their organizing work. This was the message of two trade...

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  • Industrial unions say Beat Bush!

    Industrial unions say Beat Bush!

    February 13, 2004

    WASHINGTON – You know you’re at a great conference when, before the first speaker can finish even one paragraph, 3,000 screaming workers jump to their feet, whooping and hollering to beat George Bush. That about sums...

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  • 20,000 Marylanders say: Save Our Schools

    20,000 Marylanders say: Save Our Schools

    February 13, 2004

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Holding neon light sticks in the chill darkness and placards that read “Fund Public Schools,” parents, students, teachers and other school workers marched on the State House Feb. 9 to demand that Gov....

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  • White House sold war with smoke & mirrors

    White House sold war with smoke & mirrors

    February 13, 2004 By Susan Webb

    Which is worse, a president who doesn’t know what’s going on and is manipulated by others, or a president who launches a war knowingly using false or misleading information to sell it to the American people?...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    February 12, 2004

    NEW YORK CITY: ‘Don’t use our name’ for Patriot Act Just blocks from the crater where the World Trade Center once stood, the New York City Council voted Feb. 4 to oppose the USA Patriot Act,...

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