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Bush threatens ILWU and hard-won labor rights

September 13, 2002

Nothing is more fundamental to America’s conception of itself than the freedom of speech and assembly. Unions, declared illegal in the early years of the republic, have fought for those rights for three centuries. But unionists...

One year later, public mood shifts

September 13, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows two different Americas – one in September 2001 and the other in September a year later. The differences are striking. Seldom have there been such shifts in the...

The Bush administration charts course towards global catastrophe

September 13, 2002

The biggest threat to world peace and our nation’s security emanates not from the caves of Afghanistan, but from the Oval Office in the White House. If anyone thought that Bush’s talk about unending war was...

World demands sustainable development

September 13, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

At the 1992 United Nations summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the assembled peoples declared, “Human beings are the center of concerns for sustainable development. They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony...

NOW applauds rejection of Owen nomination

September 13, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

The National Organization for Women applauds the Senate Judiciary Committee’s rejection of Priscilla Owen, a right-wing ideologue nominated to the Court of Appeals by the Bush administration.