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AFL-CIO renews health care campaign
March 20, 2003After a long silence, the AFL-CIO has weighed in on the campaign for comprehensive health care reform. In their resolution, “Renewing the Drive for Comprehensive Health Care Reform,” the February meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council...
Read moreWomens groups blast Senate abortion vote
March 20, 2003After the Senate’s March 13 vote in favor of a ban on so-called “partial birth” abortions, outraged women’s rights groups vowed to fight the law, and pointed to the importance of court nominees. National Organization for...
Read moreChild poverty and the Bush budget
March 20, 2003Nowhere is the fakery of “compassionate conservatism” better exposed than in George W. Bush’s 2004 budget proposals affecting the children in low-income families
Read moreCivil rights lawyer: Patriot Act must go
March 20, 2003MILWAUKEE – Bruce Finerty, a Chicago attorney and head of the Chicago chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, spoke here to an overflow audience of about 100 people recently on the need for the public to...
Read moreActors Guild warns against blacklisting
March 14, 2003LOS ANGELES (AP) – The entertainment industry must not blacklist people who speak out against war with Iraq, the Screen Actors Guild said last week. “Some have recently suggested that well-known individuals who express ‘unacceptable’ views...
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