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  • Californians gird to block recall Oct. 7

    Californians gird to block recall Oct. 7

    September 26, 2003

    SAN FRANCISCO – The labor-led fight to defeat the recall of California Gov. Gray Davis is surging forward despite a Sept. 22 court ruling that reinstated Oct. 7 as the date of the special election. An...

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  • No Child law hurts kids, schools

    No Child law hurts kids, schools

    September 26, 2003

    CHICAGO – The letters were sent in August. Hundreds of thousands of parents received the news. Their children were going to failing schools.

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  • Health crisis fueled by greed

    Health crisis fueled by greed

    September 19, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    The escalating health care crisis, while causing an ever-widening circle of human misery, is also revealing the ugly underbelly of U.S. capitalism. The health crisis is giving rise to a raft of illegal and fraudulent practices,...

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  • Retirees reject Medicare drug bills

    Retirees reject Medicare drug bills

    September 19, 2003

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – It rained and it poured, but still 1,000 retirees came out on Capitol Hill, Sept. 4, to stop the privatization of Medicare. Some were in wheel chairs, still they bravely held up their...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    September 19, 2003

    MONROE, Mich.: Marching for jobs and clean air As President Bush addressed a captive audience at Detroit Edison’s coal-fired electrical generation plant Sept. 15, hundreds of environmentalists rallied outside the complex protesting the administration’s “Clear Skies”...

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