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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.

Lawyers fight Bush judicial nominee

September 13, 2002

MILWAUKEE – On Aug. 30, phone calls, e-mails and faxes came in and out of the downtown office here that houses the city’s chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, in preparation for a meeting of the...

The disappearing jobs of summer

September 13, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

This summer in New Haven, Conn., my neighborhood block watch held a meeting in response to a series of car break-ins. The police lieutenant told us he talked with 16 kids who were likely to cause...

Workers flush restrictive bathroom policy

September 13, 2002 By Hilda Fort

Workers at the Jim Beam Distillery have backed the company down from its policy that restricted toilet breaks for workers on the bottling line at its Bullitt County, Ky., bourbon distillery. The workers and union there...

Black farmers picket USDA

September 13, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

About 100 African-American farmers picketed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington Aug. 22 to protest stalling on delivery of restitution payments for thousands of Black farmers who were denied government crop loans because they...