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The real New Orleans disaster wasnt natural
December 9, 2005When Hurricane Katrina tore up the roof of my house, it didn’t care that I’m Black. My white neighbors, like my Black neighbors, saw trees fall on their homes and saw their refrigerators rot and mold....
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Editorial: Worlds worst rights abuser
December 9, 2005We observe United Nations Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, with a sobering realization: In the opinion of hundreds of millions of people around the world, the Bush administration has become the worst human rights abuser of...
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Editorial: Right to organize is a human right
December 9, 2005AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was greeted with a standing ovation when he told a crowd at a Quaker Meeting House in Philadelphia, Dec. 6, that union rights are human rights and workers everywhere must stand up...
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Dec. 10: Workers rights are human rights
December 9, 2005A major new push for workers’ rights to form unions was kicked off this week at scores of events from Albuquerque to Orlando, leading up to International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. The right of workers...
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In Texas: Fish at your own risk
December 9, 2005On almost any rainless day, anglers may be observed fishing the waters of North Texas’ Trinity River. The pickup trucks, ice chests and laughing children running ahead of parents, and jockeying for a nice flat rock...
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