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Conn. labor says Human needs first

February 14, 2003

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Braving frigid cold winds, staff members and patients at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) spent their lunch hour on the picket line, Feb. 3, wearing District 1199 signs proclaiming “Patient Care...

Philadelphia to cut city jobs

February 7, 2003

PHILADELPHIA – Mayor John Street presented his $3.3 billion Budget for fiscal year 2004 to the city council, Jan. 29, a budget that will cut more than 500 city jobs this year and 1,614 by 2008....

Witness to history in Brazil

February 7, 2003

Early on the last day of the year, Dec. 31 2002, thousands of Brazilian workers were constructing platforms and mounting sound systems in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. A historic event was...

Editorials

February 7, 2003

‘No material breach’ Despite the advance publicity and a 90-minute multi-media snow job by Secretary of State Colin Powell, members of the United Nations Security Council remained unconvinced that war with Iraq is justified. While most...

On Mart, war, peace and economic justice

February 7, 2003

The following is an edited version of Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz’s Jan. 29 speech to the International Conference for World Balance, held in Havana in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of José...