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Political action tops Clevelands Labor Day
September 6, 2002CLEVELAND – “Only 100 percent union is acceptable!” said Laborers’ International President Terrence O’Sullivan, grand marshal for Cleveland’s Labor Day Parade, Aug. 31, the largest parade ever. O’Sullivan, followed by a huge contingent of Laborers Local...
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Labor Day 2002: Its time to fightback!
September 6, 2002Neither driving rain nor boiling heat could keep working families home on Labor Day 2002. Across the country, thousands marched, demanding, an end to the corporate corruption and greed that is destroying the economy, jobs, healthcare...
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9/11 events will call for just and peaceful world
September 6, 2002Peace and human rights organizations throughout the country will hold peace actions during the week of Sept. 11 to commemorate the terrorist attacks of last September and to press for peace and international cooperation. Slogans of...
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Bush readies Navy to act against longshore union
September 6, 2002LOS ANGELES – Thousands of unionists, AFL-CIO leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and elected officials voiced solidarity with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) at Labor Day events here as the dockers announced a Bush...
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Lawmakers oppose Iraq war
September 6, 2002CHICAGO – With the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks upon us, lawmakers are speaking out against the Bush-Cheney plan to invade Iraq in the name of the “war on terrorism.”
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