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8,000 Mississippi shipyard workers go on strike
March 16, 2007Eight thousand workers in Pascagoula, Miss., still picking up the pieces of their lives shattered by Hurricane Katrina, went out on strike at Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard March 8. Striking workers were still picketing last week...
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TAKE ACTION: Tell your senator to pass EFCA
March 16, 2007The AFL-CIO is mobilizing its unions to line up the 60 Senate votes needed to halt a planned Republican filibuster against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The EFCA, which requires companies to recognize a union...
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Notes from Guatemala and Colombia
March 16, 2007On March 12 Guatemalan President Oscar Berger took Bush to the Mayan sacred site Iximche. Hundreds of indigenous people carried out a vigil for 24 hours in nearby Tecpan that a leader described as “an act...
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Assessing Americas health care system
March 9, 2007Practicing Medicine without a License! The Corporate Takeover of Healthcare in America By Don M. Sloan, M.D. Ashland, Oregon, 2006 paperbound, $16.95, 305 pages In this book, Don Sloan, M.D. argues the case for a corporate-free,...
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Oscars and Spirits
March 9, 2007Two recent film awards shows couldn’t have been more different. The Oscars featured films mostly within the Hollywood corporate studio system, and the Spirit Awards favored low-budget independent productions. During its lengthy program, with one billion...
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