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EEOC could shut down

April 10, 2003

Approximately 10,000 private-sector charges and 1,200 federal-sector hearing cases will not be resolved this fiscal year if an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) furlough isn’t averted, according to EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominquez. The EEOC may...

Whole Foods: Fresh fruit, rotten benefits

April 10, 2003

NEW YORK – Over 300 United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) members and supporters, protesting Whole Foods’ anti-union policies, held a spirited rally here April 4 as part of a local effort to inform customers that...

International notes

April 10, 2003

Palestine: Demonstrators oppose Iraq war Thousands of Jews and Arabs from all over Israel participated in the demonstration organized March 29 by the Communist Party and Young Communist League of Israel, together with the Democratic Front...

Cubans respond to spree of hijackings

April 10, 2003

A rash of hijackings in the last month – two airliners in March and a ferry on April 2 –have aroused righteous anger in Cuba. The dramatic circumstances surrounding the kidnappings were highlighted in a live...

Whats going to happen to Iraq?

April 10, 2003 By Noel Rabinowitz

“Before I left Baghdad on the day U.S. bombing began, I sat and cried with many of my Iraqi friends who asked me ‘What’s going to happen to us?’” Even after five years reporting from Iraq...