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Students around globe oppose trade in education

November 14, 2003

The International Union of Students (IUS) was joined by regional students’ organizations from around the world on Sept. 13 in a Global Student Day of Action to Defend Public Education. The action was aimed at the...

The high cost of free trade Maytag workers face plant closing

November 14, 2003

“NAFTA allowed Maytag to commit the premeditated murder of our community,” said Dave Bevard, a 30-year veteran of Maytag’s refrigerator plant in Galesburg, Ill. Trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NFTA) and the...

Is the draft on the drawing boards?

November 14, 2003 By Susan Webb

Is a return to compulsory military service – the “draft” – on the Pentagon drawing boards?

Veterans Day vigils spotlight costs of war

November 14, 2003

WASHINGTON – Veterans for Peace held a vigil outside Walter Reed U.S. Army Hospital on Veterans Day and reported to the media of their visit with wounded soldiers, demanding that all U.S. troops be brought home...

Free trade scam:Its bad for workers everywhere

November 14, 2003

“We’ll be marching with truck drivers and electrical workers, nurses and teachers, health care workers and Teamsters, all kinds of working people,” Fred Frost, president of the South Florida AFL-CIO, told the Miami Herald. Frost was...