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Labor leaders to Bush: Stop bullying Mexico
March 14, 2003Leaders 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,...
Read moreTension mounts in Israel, Gaza, West Bank
March 14, 2003TEL-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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March 14, 2003DENTON, 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...
Read moreSnapshots from the picket line
March 14, 2003NEW HAVEN – Nearly 5,000 workers are back on the job and negotiations have resumed at Yale University after a history-making five-day strike.
Read moreCode Pink women say no to war
March 14, 2003WASHINGTON – 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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