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Helping your overweight child

March 8, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

According to recent government studies, an increasing number of children in this country, many of them quite young, are overweight.

Dockers celebrate victory in new hall

March 8, 2002

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Dockworker Elijah Ford stood with his wife and children before his union brothers and sisters in the magnificent new International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union hall here March 2. He is a quiet, modest...

‘Experimental’ bomb used on Afghanistan

March 8, 2002

The U.S. military dropped two BLU-118b “experimental” bombs during its “Operation Anaconda” in eastern Afghanistan over the March 1 weekend.

Eyewitness to terror: U.S. links to Colombian death squads

March 8, 2002

Plumbers and Fitters Local 393 members voted to send two members to Colombia with a Witness for Peace/Global Exchange labor delegation in January. I was one of them. We went so we could see first-hand the...

Labor councils condemn violence against unions

March 8, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Labor Council passed a strongly worded resolution condemning the destruction of the headquarters of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) in Nablus, Palestine, by Israeli F-16 fighter planes....