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  • Labor leaders to Bush: Stop bullying Mexico

    Labor leaders to Bush: Stop bullying Mexico

    March 14, 2003

    Leaders of the nation’s main farm labor organizations sent a letter on March 10 to President George Bush expressing their “outrage over the heavy-handed tactics” employed by his administration against the government of Mexico. Dolores Huerta,...

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  • Tension mounts in Israel, Gaza, West Bank

    Tension mounts in Israel, Gaza, West Bank

    March 14, 2003

    TEL-AVIV – The Israeli press here reports that special atomic, biological and chemical (ABC) units of the Israeli army’s engineering corps were ordered to be on “first-grade stand-by” alert. Those news reports do not call the...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    March 14, 2003

    DENTON, Tex.: Books not bombs Approximately 400 students walked out of class, March 5, and gathered on the University of North Texas free speech area to protest the impending war in Iraq. A coalition of UNT...

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  • Snapshots from the picket line

    Snapshots from the picket line

    March 14, 2003 By Art Perlo

    NEW HAVEN – Nearly 5,000 workers are back on the job and negotiations have resumed at Yale University after a history-making five-day strike.

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  • Code Pink women say no to war

    Code Pink women say no to war

    March 14, 2003

    WASHINGTON – Warning that George W. Bush’s war could kill, maim, or starve millions of Iraqi women and children and squander funds needed here at home, 10,000 women, many with their families, marched on the White...

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