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Letters to the Editor

September 5, 2003

Another ‘freedom ride’ While we organize for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, the Marcha por la Vida (March for Life) was happening in Honduras. Residents of the Olancho area are marching to protect their way of...

Retirees rally against Medicare reform

September 5, 2003

CLEVELAND – About 35 seniors burst in to Republican Sen. Mike DeWine’s office on Aug. 26 demanding he vote against the Medicare “reform” bill being hatched in a House-Senate conference committee. Meanwhile hundreds more demonstrated outside....

White House muzzled 9/11 health risks

September 5, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Labor unions that represent the thousands of rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center (WTC) towers site in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have suspected for some time that they weren’t...

Sneak attack in Texas

September 5, 2003

DALLAS – George Bush’s home state has gotten a lot of attention over the right-wing’s extralegal power grabs here, but the Republican government has sharpened another special razor and handed it to the populace. Gov. Rick...

Teachers, parents fight school cuts in St. Louis

September 5, 2003

ST. LOUIS – This city’s public school system, like so many others around the nation, finds itself in the grip of a severe crisis. Its problems have been brought to a head by the recent privatization...