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Labor knocks on voters doors

March 19, 2004

BAL HARBOUR, Fla. – America’s workplaces and working class neighborhoods are the front lines of the 2004 battle to rid this country of what many describe as the most anti-worker president anyone can remember, according to...

Letters

March 12, 2004

Patriotism & the left reloaded While I enjoyed reading both Emil Shaw’s article “Patriotism and the left” (PWW 1/31-2/6) and Adam Minsky’s Letter to the Editor regarding it (PWW 2/14-20), I’m afraid I must register an...

Editorials

March 12, 2004

White House lies won’t wash George W. Bush is running as a “war president” but his credibility is being tested. Bush agreed to only an hour of questioning from the 9/11 Commission set up to investigate...

The rural movement to oust Bush

March 12, 2004

There’s more than bridges in Madison County WINTERSET, Iowa – With its fertile pastures, meandering streams and quaint covered bridges, Madison County, Iowa, has become a symbol of rural America. The handsome farms with overflowing corncribs...

New York City upholds lead law

March 12, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

By a vote of 44-5, the New York City Council recently overturned Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of lead legislation that has been debated for over a decade. The voice of the New York City Council was...