2009
Editorial: Seeking a nuke-free world
April 11, 2009President Obama told a crowd of 20,000 in Prague April 5 that the U.S., the only nation that has ever used nuclear weapons, has a “moral responsibility” to lead the way in seeking “the peace and...
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Editorial: In defense of equality
April 11, 2009All people who cherish liberty, justice and equality have something to celebrate after Iowa’s Supreme Court and Vermont’s Legislature added those states to the short list of places in America where gay marriage is recognized as...
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LETTERS Banks, pensions, G20, drugs, and more
April 11, 2009Banks What to do with the banks? Turn them into credit unions!! Jo Forman Via e-mail Pension theft A recent article from Raw Story on how our pension money was shifted into stocks just before the...
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Bandana Project protests sexual violence against women farmworkers
April 10, 2009CHICAGO — Farmworker and women’s rights groups came together here April 8, to protest sexual violence against farmworker women and other low-wage female immigrant workers in the U.S. Legendary farmworker leader Dolores Huerta and others spoke...
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Of long fuses and seven league boots: US labor today
April 9, 2009I don’t know if Steven Greenhouse, of the New York Times, writes his own headlines. Doubt it. But I was sure struck by his article headlined, “In America, Labor has an Unusually Long Fuse.” It reminded...
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