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  • GE strike hits health care costs

    GE strike hits health care costs

    January 17, 2003

    SCHENECTADY, NY – As part of the first national strike against the General Electric Company in over 30 years, members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 301 walked out of...

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  • Illinois commutes death sentences

    Illinois commutes death sentences

    January 17, 2003

    CHICAGO – Illinois Governor George Ryan struck a blow against the death penalty worldwide when he pardoned four men on Illinois Death Row, Jan. 10, and commuted all 167 other death sentences to life imprisonment, Jan....

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  • 36 cities tell Bush: Give peace a chance

    36 cities tell Bush: Give peace a chance

    January 17, 2003

    Warning that war with Iraq will cost thousands of Iraqi and U.S. lives and waste billions of tax dollars needed for education and health care, the city council of Gary, Ind., unanimously approved a resolution Jan.7...

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  • Labor anti-war group launched

    Labor anti-war group launched

    January 16, 2003

    CHICAGO – U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) was founded Jan. 12 at a meeting repeatedly described as “historic” by the participants. The 100 delegates were representatives of local unions, central labor councils and labor peace...

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  • Peace rally rocks church

    Peace rally rocks church

    January 16, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    CLEVELAND – “No war for oil,” thundered the Rev. Marvin McMickle at Antioch Baptist Church, Jan. 12, before a crowd of more than 600.

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