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Farmworkers win yearlong battle with Burger King
June 7, 2008Immokalee farmworkers celebrated a landmark agreement late last month, after Burger King agreed to pay them a penny more for every pound of tomatoes they pick, to improve their working conditions and to set up a...
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Change wins
June 7, 2008Obama’s victory signals transformative moment in AmericaSurrounded by 30,000 cheering supporters in St. Paul, Minn., Barack Obama laid claim to the Democratic nomination for president, June 3, the first African American ever to be chosen by...
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Texans urge boycott of ExxonMobil
June 6, 2008DALLAS, Texas – ExxonMobil held its annual shareholders conference outside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center here May 28, and the North Texas faction of Jobs with Justice was on hand to protest the oil giant's...
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Change wins: Obamas victory signals transformative moment in America
June 5, 2008Surrounded by 30,000 cheering supporters in St. Paul, Minn., Barack Obama laid claim to the Democratic nomination for president, June 3, the first African American ever to be chosen by a major U.S. party as its...
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The underground comic book of the year
June 5, 2008A People’s History of American Empire By Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle (with additional scripting by Dave Wagner) Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2008 288 pp., paperback $17.00 “A People’s History of...
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