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Workers say: Dont privatize Medicare
August 1, 2003PHOENIX – 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...
Read moreTexas governor punishes veterans
August 1, 2003Texas Governor Rick Perry recently told a Mexican American civil rights group that he was cutting $300,000 in funding that it needs to operate a job training and employment services program for veterans. Perry’s decision appears...
Read moreConnecticut Freedom Ride gets rolling
August 1, 2003NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The basement of St. Rose Church was jam-packed, and the crowd spilled out into the streets for Connecticut’s statewide Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride kick-off rally July 23. The working class neighborhood of...
Read moreCalifornia recall has makings of coup
August 1, 2003News analysis The attempted recall of California Democratic Gov. Gray Davis has all the markings of another Republican Florida-style ballot-box coup. The situation is very fluid and volatile, but the underlying class and social forces are...
Read moreFamilies criticize Bush on 9/11 report
August 1, 2003Families of the 3,000 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack welcomed release July 24 of a House-Senate intelligence report that outlined specific warnings to the FBI and CIA of an imminent attack...
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