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New York Pride
July 3, 2009The demand for full marriage rights was a major theme at the June 28 Gay Pride Parade in New York. The parade route took the marchers past the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar raided by police...
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Change comes to the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo
July 3, 2009Can you believe it? It still seems like a dream to me. This fighting, working-class newspaper is back to daily publishing! Following in the footsteps of The Daily Worker and all the other great newspapers that...
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First-ever union contract approved at worlds largest pork plant
July 3, 2009More than 5,000 workers at the world’s largest pork processing plant, Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, N.C., approved their first-ever union contract in voting that ended Thursday. The contract was negotiated by United Food and Commercial...
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Unemployment rate hits 26 year high
July 3, 2009The unemployment rate soared to 9.5 percent in June, a 26-year high, and up a fraction from 9.4 percent in May. The Department of Labor said 467,000 jobs were lost in June. Also grim was the...
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Kennedy and Dodd unveil new public option health plan
July 3, 2009A national health care plan with a government run public option moved dramatically closer to reality this morning with the release of a new proposal by Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. In a...
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