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Copper strikers standing firm
August 19, 2005TUCSON, Ariz. — Copper workers on strike against Asarco are resolved to stick it out. The mine and smelter workers walked off their jobs July 1 in protest of Asarco’s (and parent company Grupo Mexico’s) refusal...
Read moreCapital campaign in home stretch
August 19, 2005“What a change! What an improvement! The place looks great!” These were some of the thoughts running through my head as I walked into the Los Angeles Workers Center for the first time in several months....
Read moreRoberts hostile to equal pay, memo shows
August 19, 2005WASHINGTON — A newly released legal memo by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts calling pay equity for women a “pernicious” legal doctrine touched off demands by women’s organizations that he be quizzed closely on the...
Read moreShowdown in Texas: The end of the occupation begins in Crawford
August 19, 2005CRAWFORD, Texas – Cindy Sheehan’s roadside vigil has reverberated in towns and cities around the nation and even through the gates of President Bush’s ranch here. Vowing to trail the president back to Washington at the...
Read more‘The end of the occupation begins in Crawford, Texas’
August 18, 2005CRAWFORD, Texas – Cindy Sheehan rode down to President Bush’s Crawford ranch last weekend on a Veterans For Peace bus after the veterans’ national convention in Dallas. Since then she has maintained a vigil outside Bush's...
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