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New Orleans rally: Save Charity Hospital
April 7, 2006Two hundred doctors, other health care workers, patients and “Charity babies” — New Orleans residents born at the city’s Charity Hospital — rallied March 25, demanding that President Bush, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and the Louisiana...
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Claremont Resort & Spa workers win long battle
April 7, 2006BERKELEY, Calif. — After a long and sometimes bitter struggle, some 400 workers at the luxury Claremont Resort and Spa have won a new, multiyear contract providing wage and benefit increases their union says will raise...
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April 7, 2006ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: 1,500 march for immigrant rights With over 500 Latino high school students in the lead, about 1,500 united Albuquerquians marched into Civic Plaza April 1 to celebrate the city’s first official observance of Cesar...
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Immigrant rights: a new movement springs up
April 7, 2006WASHINGTON — Father Claudio Holzer, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Melrose Park, Ill., is a board member of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Yet even he was stunned by the...
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Calls mount for censure or impeachment of Bush
April 7, 2006WASHINGTON — Despite Republican efforts to kill it, a grassroots movement demanding that Congress censure or impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for “high crimes” is spreading across the nation. The Senate...
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