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Mad cows and sick chickens: capitalism and the food supply

April 9, 2004 By Annie Fox

Are you becoming afraid of the grocery store? If you are, it’s no wonder. Mad cow disease, avian flu, and mercury in salmon are the latest dangers to our food supply.

Starving Section 8 housing to fund war

April 9, 2004

SEATTLE – The new Bush budget would devastate the Section 8 housing program, the National Low-Income Housing Coalition has warned. The slash in funding for housing and other domestic programs is coupled in the Bush budget...

National Clips

April 9, 2004

HUNTINGTON, W.Va.: 500 workers, students protest Bush “I was invited to Mr. Bush’s rally down the road,” Huntington Mayor David Felinton told 500 coal miners, steelworkers, building trades workers, firefighters and students, April 2. “But I...

In Massachusetts: Same-sex couples set to wed in May

April 9, 2004

Despite potential setbacks, gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed in the state of Massachusetts in a matter of weeks. On May 17 marriage licenses will be issued to same-sex partners, the result of...

Voters say No to Wal-Mart

April 9, 2004

By a 60 percent vote, residents of Inglewood, Calif., rejected a ballot initiative April 6 that would have given Wal-Mart Corp. carte blanche to ignore zoning, traffic and environmental regulations to build a mega-store in their...