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May Day: finding its way back home
May 3, 2008May Day 2008 would have been a great time for both. Not that long ago labor activists had to struggle with a cold war mythology that had May Day as a creation of the Soviet Union....
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Pain at the pump
May 3, 2008Gas prices set a record at $3.60 a gallon nationwide April 28, up 66 cents from a year ago. Experts expect prices above $4 a gallon this summer. Rising fuel costs are hitting virtually every area...
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Stop the feeding frenzy
May 3, 2008The corporate media feeding frenzy in the wake of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s question-and-answer session at the National Press Club is the latest example of how desperate right-wing and ruling circles (yes, the real elite) are...
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Hispanic Caucus stands up to right wing
May 3, 2008Less than a year since the Bush administration’s flawed “comprehensive” immigration bill failed in the Senate and with just six months until the November elections, pressure on the House by both pro and anti-immigrant groups is...
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Sean Bell verdict outrages New Yorkers
May 3, 2008Fiancée: ‘They’re saying it was OK for police to kill him’NEW YORK — “What they’re saying is that it was OK for the police to kill Sean,” said Nicole Paultre Bell, fiancée of Sean Bell, the...
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