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Change comes to the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo
July 3, 2009Can you believe it? It still seems like a dream to me. This fighting, working-class newspaper is back to daily publishing! Following in the footsteps of The Daily Worker and all the other great newspapers that...
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Kennedy and Dodd unveil new public option health plan
July 3, 2009A national health care plan with a government run public option moved dramatically closer to reality this morning with the release of a new proposal by Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. In a...
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Costco warns customers about contaminated meat
July 3, 2009Costco Wholesale, the fifth largest general retailer in the United States, is sending letters to nearly 300,000 customers in the country's northwest and midwest regions, informing them that they might have bought meat that is subject...
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Study finds workplace immigration raids unlawful
July 3, 2009Original source: In the early morning hours of December 12, 2006, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept into Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in six states, rounding up detaining thousands of workers in one of the...
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Swift Senate passage of hate crimes bill urged
July 3, 2009Original source: Though the House of Representatives passed the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act three months ago, the Senate has yet to take action on the bill. Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder...
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