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45 Colombian unionists killed this year

April 19, 2002

Last Wednesday, paramilitaries dragged Alfredo Zapata Herrera, a leader of the SUTIMAC trade union, off a bus while on his way to work. The next day he was found dead nearby. He was the 45th trade...

How exciting it is to be changing the world!

April 19, 2002 By Susan Webb

The Women’s Equality Summit and Congressional Action Day, April 8-9, showed the women’s movement stepping up to the plate as part of the growing movement fighting for economic, social and political justice.

Copyrights: Balancing power and Constitutional rights

April 19, 2002 By Dennis DeMaio

As we ponder the meaning of Copyright Awareness Week this April 22-28, the nation should be very concerned about the financial squeeze the publishing industry is inflicting upon freelance writers in this country today. Originally, U.S....

United, weve got what it takes to win

April 19, 2002 By Conn Hallinan

“As long as we keep taking what they are dishing out,” United Steelworkers of America President Leo Gerard told a meeting on national health care, “they’ll keep dishing it out !” The men and women in...

Marchers protest Rep. Talents exorbitant pay

April 19, 2002

ST. LOUIS – Close to 100 people, including members of ACORN, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2000, Pro-Vote and the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, marched into Rep. Jim Talent’s (R–Mo.) Senatorial campaign headquarters here on April...