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Hotel workers fired for organizing

March 7, 2003

DETROIT – “We all signed union cards, the whole department. I thought if we stuck together, we could win. Surely they couldn’t get rid of the whole department? I was wrong,” testified Charles Hardin to the...

National Clips

March 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

PITTSBURGH: 124th city on the peace list / BALTIMORE: Peace ‘illegal’ in suburban mall / SAN FRANCISCO: Stock exchange pres. against war / DETROIT: Marchers to High Court: ‘Save affirmative action’ / DALLAS: Driving while Black...

Interfaith march against war

March 7, 2003

CHICAGO – Singing “peace, salaam, shalom” 2,000 clergy and lay worshipers solemnly paraded through the city’s Gold Coast on Feb. 23 to bear witness to the casualties of a U.S. pre-emptive war on Iraq. The action...

Epidemics and cutbacks grip NYC

February 28, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Community health epidemics are now facing almost every big city in the country and some rural areas also.

Churches speak out against war

February 28, 2003 By Susan Webb

National religious leaders are bringing a strong message against war on Iraq to their congregations across the country. “We are taking our message to ‘middle church’ – middle America at church,” the Rev. Robert Edgar, National...