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A clear and present danger to public safety

November 22, 2003

Police departments have joined immigrant rights advocates in denouncing the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal (CLEAR) Act, H.R. 2671. The proposed law would require local police departments to enforce federal immigration laws or face...

Nurses strike: End 12-hour shifts

November 22, 2003

PHILADELPHIA – Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP) Hospital nurses were on the picket line at the hospital’s entrance here early on Nov. 11. Their signs expressed the issues preventing Office and Professional Employees International Union Local...

Plunder unmasked in Iraq

November 22, 2003

The ugly face of imperialism is now in full view with the revelation of the U.S. occupation command’s economic initiatives in Iraq: • The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is devastating Iraq’s domestic industry by encouraging imports....

Voters rebuff nonpartisan scheme

November 22, 2003

NEW YORK – Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg sustained a major defeat on Election Day when the electorate overwhelmingly voted down the proposal for nonpartisan elections that he bankrolled. Though the mayor said that nonpartisan elections, which...

Victory for science education in Texas

November 22, 2003

Right-wing radicals recently suffered a setback in Texas when the State Board of Education refused to ban 11 biology textbooks that presented evolution as scientific fact instead of a hypothesis. The ultra-conservative radicals mounted a campaign...