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Yale workers hold giant rally for union contracts

May 3, 2002 By Joelle Fishman

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Thousands of Yale workers, students and residents of New Haven neighborhoods took to the streets April 24, stopping traffic as they pounded drums and carried placards to a rally in front of...

Marshall Plan: A cover for corporations

May 3, 2002 By Susan Webb

Earlier this month Pres. Bush invoked the post-World War II Marshall Plan as he proclaimed an ongoing U.S. economic and military role in Afghanistan. There’s been much talk recently of new Marshall Plans.

Coalition battles Bush welfare cuts

May 3, 2002

WASHINGTON – The Republican leadership wants a House floor vote before the Memorial Day recess on reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), a bill they have loaded with attacks on the poor such as...

AK Steel workers march against corporate terrorism

May 3, 2002 By BJ Mangaoang

PITTSBURGH – There is a war on U.S. workers and Armco-Kawasaki (AK) steelworkers, members of United Steelworkers of America (USWA) Local 169, are on the front lines.

Funeral protests shooting

May 3, 2002

SEATTLE – “It is not a crime in America to get lost.” This was the comment of Rev. Harriett Walden, head of Mothers for Police Accountability, after the funeral of Robert Thomas, Sr. Thomas, an older...