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  • Texas educators: No cuts for kids!

    Texas educators: No cuts for kids!

    March 27, 2003

    AUSTIN, Texas – About 1,000 public school teachers and their supporters rallied at the Capitol here March 17 to stop the cuts in public education funding proposed by the business lobby and the right-wing extremists who...

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  • Villaraigosa struck a blow for justice in Los Angeles

    Villaraigosa struck a blow for justice in Los Angeles

    March 21, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    Opinion Antonio Villaraigosa struck a blow for justice when he won his bid for City Council in the 14th Council District in East Los Angeles on March 4.

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  • UFW: No war on Iraq honors Chavez legacy

    UFW: No war on Iraq honors Chavez legacy

    March 21, 2003

    Cesar Chavez’s legacy is all about peace and non-violent action. If there was ever a time for Cesar’s legacy to come alive it is now. Basic principle demands that the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO,...

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  • Without French solidarity, would there be a U.S.A.?

    Without French solidarity, would there be a U.S.A.?

    March 21, 2003

    Opinion Republican House leaders, enraged that France refuses to back George W. Bush’s Iraq war, have decreed that from now on french fries served in Capitol Hill dining halls are “freedom fries.” France is denounced as...

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  • Chicagoans to hear about Venezuela

    Chicagoans to hear about Venezuela

    March 21, 2003

    The Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, Dr. Bernardo Alvarez, will visit Chicago for a public presentation, March 28. The following is a recent letter Alvarez wrote to the U.S. press. The United States was founded...

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