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June 12, 2003BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Prison labor is back With a rising prison population and a state budget crisis, Alabama has been contracting-out people in jail to a furniture maker and a telemarketer. Prison labor, once outlawed, is back...
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Texas Homeland Security scandal brews
June 12, 2003AUSTIN, Texas – A scandal is brewing in Texas related to the use of the Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement resources to advance the partisan political agenda of the right-wing extremists who control...
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These cuts wont heal
June 6, 2003The Medical-Industrial complex targets Medicare and Medicaid(see related story below) The Medical-Industrial complex has set its sights not only on reaping massive profits from the medical insurance, durable equipment, bio-med technology (the ooh ah bells and...
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Little Maine: the dragon slayer
June 6, 2003When two British publications – The Economist magazine and The Financial Times – pay tribute, of sorts, to the actions of a single state in the USA, you can be sure that history has been made.
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Urgent campaign to save San Pedro River
June 6, 2003Tucson, Ariz. – The continued existence of the Southwest’s ecologically vital San Pedro River is under severe threat, environmental activists say, because of a rider to the FY 2004 Defense Authorization Act. The proposed new clause,...
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