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June 12, 2003BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Prison labor is back With a rising prison population and a state budget crisis, Alabama has been contracting-out people in jail to a furniture maker and a telemarketer. Prison labor, once outlawed, is back...
Read moreTexas Homeland Security scandal brews
June 12, 2003AUSTIN, Texas – A scandal is brewing in Texas related to the use of the Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement resources to advance the partisan political agenda of the right-wing extremists who control...
Read moreMemorial desecrated
June 12, 2003Ludlow, Colo. – One of organized labor’s most sacred and cherished shrines, the Ludlow Memorial, was desecrated on or shortly after the evening of May 7. Vandals cut through solid granite and marble to sever the...
Read moreA profound message from Dr. King
June 6, 2003Opinion Thirty-five years ago, on April 4, 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest men in American history, was assassinated. Dr. King, who led the Civil Rights Movement from the mid-1950s to...
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June 6, 2003Thank you Glenn Fine! In a report released on June 3, Glenn A. Fine, inspector general of the Department of Justice (DOJ), said the mass arrests of immigrants in the aftermath of Sept. 11 was plagued...
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