2009
Blue Cross millionaires scared to compete
May 26, 2009Original source: Truthout The boys running the show at Blue Cross in North Carolina are running scared. They're worried that President Obama is going to treat them like autoworkers and make them actually compete in the...
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Class prejudice and Ireland’s report on child abuse
May 25, 2009Last week Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse released a 2,575-page report detailing horrific conditions tens of thousands of children faced in Catholic-run institutions with government collaboration. The report chronicles 'endemic and repeated' sexual, physical...
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MUSIC REVIEW Two giants of music, Bob Dylan & Steve Earle, release new CDs
May 25, 2009MusicREVIEWTogether Through Life By Bob Dylan Columbia Records Townes By Steve Earle New West Records Two music giants released record albums around May Day last month. While their ages are quite disparate by about 20 years...
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EDITORIAL Cost of anti-immigrant laws
May 24, 2009State after state, some 45 in all, continue to suffer major budget shortfalls due to increased costs of anti-immigrant “enforcement only” local laws. According to a report released last January by the National Employment Law Project,...
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Black trade unionists: Now is the Future.
May 23, 2009ATLANTA — The first major gathering of Black trade unionists since the election of Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president, is taking place in this city this Memorial Day weekend under the theme of “Now...
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