News
Cuba solidarity group returns with fanfare
August 15, 2003BUFFALO – The 34th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade triumphantly returned from its visit to Cuba on Aug. 4 when participants walked across the International Peace Bridge from Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, to Buffalo, N.Y., without...
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International notes
August 15, 2003Iraq: Protest of fuel & power shortages Protests continued early this week in Basra, the country’s largest city, and the surrounding area against prolonged shortages of electricity and gasoline that are making life miserable in the...
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Bushs Senegal visit uncensored
August 15, 2003The following is an abridged e-mail sent by a Senegalese woman and health activist to friends. It gives an uncensored view of George W. Bush’s Africa visit. DAKAR, Senegal – [Bush’s] visit has been such an...
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National Clips
August 15, 2003ANNISTON, Ala.:‘Stop burning of chemical weapons’ Despite years of protests and court action by residents, the U.S. Army began burning chemical weapons along one of the most densely populated sections of the Atlanta to Birmingham corridor...
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AFL-CIO 2004 election plans
August 15, 2003CHICAGO – The City of Big Shoulders was an appropriate place for the mid-year AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting Aug. 5-6. Here organized labor, deliberately and with little fanfare, began the heavy lifting of coordinating and mobilizing...
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