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VOTE Nov. 2! We have numbers, momentum

October 29, 2004 By Susan Webb

“We have the numbers, we have the momentum,” said New Mexico labor leader Danny Rivera. “It’s going to be about performance” — about who gets the voters to the polls.

VOTE Nov. 2! Problems? Call Election Protection 1-866-OUR-VOTE

October 29, 2004 By Wally Kaufman

COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 1,000 union members marched on the offices of Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, Oct. 25, to demand that he protect the rights of 700,000 newly registered Ohio voters threatened...

Ballot measures to spur turnout

October 23, 2004

Karl Rove didn’t miss a trick in his schemes to contrive a Bush victory for president. One tactic is ballot initiatives prohibiting gay marriage, with the goal of splitting Democrats and consolidating the right-wing Republican base....

Turtles & Teamsters, 2004

October 23, 2004

GRASSROOTS POWER The League of Conservation Voters has been going door to door for John Kerry in the suburbs near Milwaukee, Wis. The environmental group gave the president an “F,” the first failing grade for a...

Bill Gerson, math teacher and activist, 65

October 23, 2004

William (Bill) Gerson, 65, a mathematics professor at Prince George’s Community College (PGCC), who wrote for the Daily World, predecessor of the People’s Weekly World, died of cancer Oct. 4 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in...