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  • Tucson to welcome Freedom Riders

    Tucson to welcome Freedom Riders

    August 7, 2003

    A broad coalition of labor, immigrant rights, and faith-based organizations is coming together to plan a grand welcome for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride when it reaches Tucson on Sept. 24. Support for the action has...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    August 7, 2003

    MARKS, Miss.:Poor people’s march, 35 years later Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the first Poor People’s March 35 years ago beginning in Marks, Miss. The spirit of Dr. King lives to answer the deepening poverty...

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  • Falling profits and war

    Falling profits and war

    August 1, 2003 By Wadi’h Halabi

    Falling profits impel capitalists to war as surely as thirst drives donkeys to water. 2001 witnessed a 54 percent drop in the profits of the Fortune “Global 500,” the world’s 500 largest corporations.

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  • Tucson protests immigrant border deaths

    Tucson protests immigrant border deaths

    August 1, 2003

    TUCSON, Ariz. – Reacting in anger and horror to the mounting number of deaths on the Arizona-Mexico border, about 100 demonstrators turned out for a protest at the Federal Building July 23 organized by La Coalición...

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  • Workers say: Dont privatize Medicare

    Workers say: Dont privatize Medicare

    August 1, 2003

    PHOENIX – Five arrests were made at a militant protest led by Arizona AFL-CIO leadership in response to ultra-right Senator Jon Kyl’s support for legislation to privatize Medicare. Part of a creative, three-pronged strategy devised by...

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