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Winchester workers rally to save jobs
March 18, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Despite very low temperatures and snowy sidewalks, union members, workers and politicians gathered in high spirits at the Winchester plant gate March 15 chanting “Save the Jobs!” Craig Gauthier, chair of the...
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Bay Area residents: We shall not be moved!
March 18, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — When residents of one of the city’s last largely African American neighborhoods think about the future being planned for Bayview Hunters Point, they are haunted by echoes of an earlier “redevelopment” that devastated...
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No more environment left to wreck
March 17, 2006Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton announced her resignation March 10, saying that there was “no more environment left to wreck” after five years at her Cabinet-level job. Flanked by members of her Department of the...
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Sunshine State janitors fight for a living wage
March 17, 2006MIAMI — Hundreds of students, faculty, clergy, and community supporters marched through the University of Miami campus March 3 chanting, singing and carrying signs. At the edge of the campus this spirited throng joined scores of...
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WORLDNOTES
March 17, 2006Ecuador: Warning strike Ecuador declared a state of emergency in three Amazonian oil provinces last week as 4,000 oil workers participated in a two-day “warning strike” in a dispute over back pay totaling $51 million. The...
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