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Hope, change, unity, history
June 7, 2008After 17 months and 56 primaries and caucuses, and after an unprecedented 35 million people cast their votes during the nominating process, Sen. Barack Obama became the first African American who could claim the nomination of...
Read moreTransit crunch may spark new vision
June 7, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — Just when soaring gas prices, clogged highways and deepening worries about global warming are leading Americans to abandon their cars for public transit, a budget squeeze is wrapping itself like a boa constrictor...
Read moreFarmworkers 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...
Read moreChange 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...
Read moreTexans 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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