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  • Tent city set up to save hospital

    Tent city set up to save hospital

    April 4, 2003

    LOS ANGELES – With chants of “Save Rancho” and “These cuts won’t heal,” over 150 community, labor and disabled activists, many in wheelchairs, marched in front of the Rancho Los Amigos Hospital administration building here recently...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    April 4, 2003

    AROUND THE COUNTRY – In the first 12 days of war, vigils, teach-ins, conferences, art and music events, public prayer meetings and protests continued in cities, towns, and neighborhoods in the heartland and on the coasts....

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  • Budget battle continues over brutal cuts

    Budget battle continues over brutal cuts

    April 4, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

    News Analysis In a statement released after the Senate approved a resolution setting the parameters for the 2004 budget, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney singled out the Senate’s 51-48 vote to cut Bush’s tax cut for the...

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  • ACLU fights Patriot Act

    ACLU fights Patriot Act

    April 4, 2003

    PITTSBURGH – The knock on the door in the middle of the night is not a fantasy for hundreds of thousands of Muslims, people of Middle-Eastern descent and those who express opposition to the Bush war...

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  • From New England a big no to war!

    From New England a big no to war!

    April 4, 2003

    BOSTON – Led by a contingent of war veterans and military families, tens of thousands of New Englanders marched and rallied here March 20, to protest the Bush administration’s war against Iraq. The march and rally,...

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