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Copper strikers standing firm

August 19, 2005

TUCSON, 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...

Capital 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....

Roberts hostile to equal pay, memo shows

August 19, 2005

WASHINGTON — 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...

Showdown in Texas: The end of the occupation begins in Crawford

August 19, 2005

CRAWFORD, 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...

‘The end of the occupation begins in Crawford, Texas’

August 18, 2005

CRAWFORD, 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...