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EDITORIAL: Whos corrupt?
March 10, 2006In February 2003 Bush’s Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao issued an undisguised threat to the elected union leaders representing millions of Americans. At a meeting of the executive council of the AFL-CIO, to which Chao had...
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LETTERS
March 3, 2006Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner I read your article about “Three who gave their lives: Remembering the martyrs of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964” (PWW 5/25/96), and I wanted to invite you to see their sculpture: www.yoyita.com/civilrights.htm. Yoyita...
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American Indian activist Leonard Peltier seeks new trial
February 24, 2006ST. LOUIS — “It is my obligation to find errors in the government’s case,” Barry Bachrach, a defense lawyer for Leonard Peltier, told the World outside of the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse here Feb. 13, after...
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LETTERS
February 24, 2006Wrong on Nixzmary Brown As a working-class person who receives public assistance, I was disappointed and offended at Bill Davis’s article “Nixzmary Brown’s tragic death” (PWW 2/11-17). Nobody excuses child abuse or murder. But gone completely...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
February 24, 2006ANN ARBOR, Mich.: Students hold ‘spy-in’ protest The only prop missing was the famous James Bond martini, “shaken, not stirred,” as students donned Hollywood “spy” gear in a street theater action Feb. 17 in front of...
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