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PUSH convention challenges candidates

July 1, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

CHICAGO – Delegates to the 32nd Annual Conference of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition grilled seven of the nine candidates seeking the Democratic Party presidential nomination and called for a change in the nation’s foreign and domestic priorities.

Striking Tyson Foods workers hold firm

July 1, 2003 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

JEFFERSON, Wis. – Solidarity with striking Tyson Foods workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 538, continues to grow as 500 strikers and supporters rallied here June 22. As the strike approaches its fifth...

Iraq quagmire echoes Vietnam

July 1, 2003 By Susan Webb

Talk of a U.S. quagmire in Iraq is mounting as attacks on U.S. and British soldiers ratchet upward. A harrowing report in the London Evening Standard June 15 gives a graphic picture of traumatized American soldiers...

High court upholds affirmative action

July 1, 2003

WASHINGTON – The grassroots movement that marched and rallied in defense of affirmative action over the last decade hailed the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision, June 23, upholding race-conscious admissions programs at the University of...

Letters

June 20, 2003

Change U.S. foreign policy The war is, for the most part, over. Iraq has been “liberated,” the country is in a shambles, but Halliburton is on hand to rebuild. With apparently overwhelming public support, why were...