News
Service workers tell UC: Living wage now!
April 22, 2005BERKELEY, Calif. — Hundreds of striking service workers, other campus workers, students and faculty gathered on the steps of International House on the University of California–Berkeley campus April 14 to greet incoming UC Chancellor Robert Birgeneau...
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NAACP launches SOS: Save our Social Security
April 22, 2005When the hawk advises the chicken that its eggs are better off in the hawk’s nest, it makes sense to be suspicious. Perhaps with that proverb in mind, NAACP chairman Julian Bond and other African American...
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Put the Hammer in the slammer: DeLay linked to swindle of Indian tribes
April 22, 2005WASHINGTON — The downfall of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) may come from his crony ties to Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, DeLay’s former chief of staff. Over a three-year period, they allegedly...
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Chicagos Latino film fest countrys oldest
April 15, 2005CHICAGO — Pepe Vargas, from Colombia, was working a job, going to ESL classes and taking college courses when he put the Latino Film Festival on the Chicago map. Twenty-one years later, it is the nation’s...
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Letters
April 15, 2005Getting it right In response to your article by Paul Hill on “Immigrants’ tragedy and death penalty injustice” (PWW 3/26-4/1): You got it. Right on the nose. Thanks for having the courage to stand up and...
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