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Teamsters mark 100th anniversary

September 12, 2003

Workers’ Correspondence The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) celebrated its 100th anniversary on Sept. 6 in Washington, D.C. There were more than 3,500 Teamsters in attendance from all across the United States and Canada. There were...

Florida court blocks Medicaid-funded abortions

September 12, 2003

Continuing to put women’s health at risk, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals issued an opinion Sept. 3 refusing to overturn Florida’s ban on Medicaid-funded abortions. The Center for Reproductive Rights challenged the ban last August...

Tulia 35 pardoned

September 12, 2003

Joe Moore and 34 co-defendants in the Tulia, Texas, drug bust fiasco were pardoned on Aug. 22 by Gov. Rick Perry. Perry’s pardon clears the 60-year-old Moore, who is African American, of charges that he sold...

Soldier gets the word out

September 12, 2003

While we in Texas worry about the safety of our soldier friend in Iraq, he’s worrying about how to improve our PWW circulation. Here are more excerpts from his correspondence. Dear Jim, Did you know there...

Oil company greed fuels rage at pumps

September 12, 2003

OAKLAND, Calif. – I stopped to gas up my economy rental car at the Shell station in Gilroy (“Garlic capital of the nation”) late one night as I crisscrossed the state covering the fight against the...