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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    September 26, 2003

    Another one-term Bush? George W. Bush’s approval rating – 71 percent only six weeks ago – is now 50 percent, and headed down. The 2004 elections are only 15 months off and the drumbeat of bad...

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  • Corporate America and far-right buy grassroots campaigns

    Corporate America and far-right buy grassroots campaigns

    September 26, 2003

    A mockery of democracy: Corporate America and far-right buy ‘grassroots’ campaigns Back in July, Judge Charles McCoy dismissed a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by Taxpayers Against the Governor’s Recall charging widespread fraud in the collection...

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  • Labor mural unveiled

    Labor mural unveiled

    September 26, 2003

    BREWER, Maine – On Labor Day about 150 enthusiastic union members and supporters gathered at the Labor Temple here to dedicate a mural large enough to cover three outside walls of the headquarters building of the...

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  • Kucinich gets ovation at UE meet

    Kucinich gets ovation at UE meet

    September 26, 2003

    PITTSBURGH – Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, brought cheers from delegates to the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers 68th convention here recently, challenging them to consider “a new vision...

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  • Bush attacks OSHA

    Bush attacks OSHA

    September 26, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    This year’s proposed budget has the Bush administration cutting the already meager budgets of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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