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July 11, 2003

PITTSBURGH, Penn.: Goodyear talks break off Negotiators for 19,000 active rubber workers and 22,000 retirees at Goodyear Rubber Company are not cutting their own throats. On June 28, leaders of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA)...

Houston prepares for Freedom Ride

July 11, 2003

According to organizer Maria Jimenez, the scene looked like an old-fashioned pep rally for Flag Day in Houston as the Wood Forest High School marching band warmed up the crowd in the huge Electrical Workers Union...

Parents fight Jebs biased test

July 11, 2003

At least 43,000 third-graders and 12,000 high school seniors failed the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) this past May, triggering an angry protest movement by parents, students, and their supporters demanding that Gov. Jeb Bush suspend...

Kucinich vows to challenge monopolies

July 4, 2003

ELGIN, Ill. – On June 21, Dennis Kucinich took his campaign for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party into the home territory of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, one of George W. Bush’s closest allies. Speaking...

Black Radical Congress charts course

July 4, 2003

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – The Black Radical Congress (BRC) brought together 200 activists at Seton Hall University during the weekend of June 20-22 to discuss “War, Racism and Repression: Confronting the U.S. Empire.” There was full...