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WOMENS HISTORY MONTH: I helped organize the CIO

March 14, 2003 By Beatrice Lumpkin

I was not quite 19 but I answered the call to help organize the laundry workers of New York City. In two months, our staff of 30, half of us Communists, organized 20,000 workers.

Labor leaders to Bush: Stop bullying Mexico

March 14, 2003

Leaders of the nation’s main farm labor organizations sent a letter on March 10 to President George Bush expressing their “outrage over the heavy-handed tactics” employed by his administration against the government of Mexico. Dolores Huerta,...

National Clips

March 14, 2003

DENTON, Tex.: Books not bombs Approximately 400 students walked out of class, March 5, and gathered on the University of North Texas free speech area to protest the impending war in Iraq. A coalition of UNT...

Code Pink women say no to war

March 14, 2003

WASHINGTON – Warning that George W. Bush’s war could kill, maim, or starve millions of Iraqi women and children and squander funds needed here at home, 10,000 women, many with their families, marched on the White...

Peace T-shirt sparks civil liberties battle

March 14, 2003 By Susan Webb

When the Crossgates Mall tangled with freedom of speech, it got more than it bargained for. The mall ordered Stephen Downs, 60, a local lawyer, to take off a T-shirt bearing the slogans “Peace on Earth,”...