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Change our election system

November 14, 2002

Worker’s Correspondence This Election Day I worked as a judge in a small Chicago Southside precinct of less than 700 registered voters. Because of my age, this is my first Election Day horror story. I arrived...

Students seek truth in media

November 14, 2002

Fierce storms did not stop a crowd of students from the University of North Texas in Denton from attending a panel discussion on 'Media Democracy Day,' Oct. 18. On a table by the doorway were the...

The death of neo-liberalism

November 14, 2002 By Greg Godwin

During the 1970s, a new set of economic policies for preserving and promoting capitalist development emerged. Its most celebrated political expression was in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

NARAL President speaks on judicial appointments

November 14, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

WASHINGTON – National Abortion Rights Action League President Kate Michelman, in a Nov. 7 press statement, warned that with the White House and Congress in 'anti-choice hands' NARAL expects the president to move aggressively to 'pack...

Union voters pinpoint key legislative issues

November 14, 2002

The answers given in an AFL-CIO election day survey of 1,020 union members helps answer the question, 'now what' – what are the issues that might serve as its programmatic demands as the labor movement gears...