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Lucy Flato, labor activist, writer

January 23, 2004

Lucille Burman Flato died peacefully Jan. 7 in San Francisco, of complications from a massive stroke. Born in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 21, 1922, to Daisy Whitney and Frank Burman, Lucy Flato moved to New York...

On Bushs immigration reform

January 23, 2004

Opinion Now that President Bush has made his famous statement on how he is going to take care of the 8 to 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, the corporate media are emitting...

Letters

January 23, 2004

Voting machine story on target Barbara Jean Hope’s Jan. 17 commentary, “Who is counting your vote? Diebold & Bush vs. the public interest,” is both timely and alarming. I have been watching for years the increasingly...

Editorials

January 23, 2004

Under the cover of darkness One thing George Bush wasn’t bragging about in his State of the Union Address was his cowardly use of an obscure parliamentary gimmick to secure the promotion of notorious racist Charles...

Worker safety an issue for 2004 elections

January 23, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential aspirant John Edwards criticized the Bush administration for failing to protect U.S. workers and issued a comprehensive program to strengthen the Occcupational Saftey and Health Administration (OSHA) on Dec. 31.