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Steelworkers rally in East Chicago

November 14, 2003

Workers’ Correspondence “Steelworkers all came from somewhere else,” Africa, Europe, Asia, South and Central America, said United Steelworkers of America District 7 Director Jim Robinson to a lunch-hour rally called to demand President Bush keep tariffs...

The dump-Bush strategy for independent media

November 14, 2003 By Noel Rabinowitz

Opinion The right wing’s media strategy to slant the odds in the upcoming 2004 elections will draw from its familiar bag of tricks, with help from its ultra-wealthy friends.

The high cost of free trade Maytag workers face plant closing

November 14, 2003

“NAFTA allowed Maytag to commit the premeditated murder of our community,” said Dave Bevard, a 30-year veteran of Maytag’s refrigerator plant in Galesburg, Ill. Trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NFTA) and the...

Is the draft on the drawing boards?

November 14, 2003 By Susan Webb

Is a return to compulsory military service – the “draft” – on the Pentagon drawing boards?

Veterans Day vigils spotlight costs of war

November 14, 2003

WASHINGTON – Veterans for Peace held a vigil outside Walter Reed U.S. Army Hospital on Veterans Day and reported to the media of their visit with wounded soldiers, demanding that all U.S. troops be brought home...