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Families of military personnel and veterans speak out against war

March 14, 2003 By Hans Lebrecht

The world has been galvanized into action against the Bush administration’s drive to war with Iraq. This is no less true in the United States. In all sectors of the U.S. population you will find anti-war...

There is no good news

March 14, 2003

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ unemployment report for February reminds one of the nightly radio broadcast by the London correspondent of CBS News in the early days of World War II. “There is no good news,...

The health bridge is falling down

March 14, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Ever heard of COBRA? You probably have if you lost a job and were offered the opportunity to keep your health coverage. Under the 1986 Consolidated Omnibus Benefit Reconciliation Act (COBRA), workers who are laid off...

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,...