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  • Bush threatens troops in longshore dispute

    Bush threatens troops in longshore dispute

    August 9, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

    LOS ANGELES – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) revealed this week that a secret Bush administration task force has threatened a military takeover of West Coast ports if the union decides to strike.

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  • Music review: Musicians respond to Sept. 11

    Music review: Musicians respond to Sept. 11

    August 9, 2002

    Steve Earle’s new album, Jerusalem, will be released on Sept. 24. He returns to his typically sharp and insightful political response to the world as he sees it. Earle said, in a recent interview, that President...

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  • Walking with a Prisoner of Conscience

    Walking with a Prisoner of Conscience

    August 8, 2002

    Prisoner of Conscience, a Memoir, by Kenneth Kennon, 88105-020, Former Prisoner of Conscience (POC) Kenneth Kennon ranks high among the minority of those who walk their talk. This devoted family man and friend, minister and counselor,...

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  • Economic recovery? Not for African Americans

    Economic recovery? Not for African Americans

    August 8, 2002 By Bruce Bostick

    Although the official unemployment rate for July stood at 5.9 percent, it was 9.9 percent if “hidden” unemployment – those who would work if they could find jobs – were taken into account, and that’s bad.

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  • Racial discrimination and income

    Racial discrimination and income

    August 8, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    Two recent studies, one by Katherine L. Bradbury, vice president and economist at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, and the other by two Rutgers Law School professors, document the extent of employment discrimination against African Americans...

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