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Bush budget would slash Medicare, reward rich
February 16, 2007“The president’s budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality and continues to move America in the wrong direction,” charged Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, on Feb. 5. “This...
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Time to pass Employee Free Choice
February 16, 2007“I served my nation to protect the laws of our land, not companies like Smithfield that deprive us of those laws,” meatpacking worker Keith Ludlum told a packed congressional hearing last week.
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A decade of fighting old battles in the New South
February 9, 2007Much has written about the New South and expanded opportunity for Blacks and others in the old bastion of Confederate pride, but human rights and civil rights leaders in the region point to racial injustice, voter...
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Fighting like hell to stop county cuts
February 9, 2007This testimony was presented to the Cook County, Ill., Board of Commissioners at a public hearing Jan. 29 in Chicago.The proposed $500 million in cuts will severely affect every county service and devastate the county’s public...
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EDITORIAL: The courage of Paul Robeson
February 9, 2007In February we celebrate African American History Month. That history has given us some of humanity’s greatest freedom fighters: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks, and Dr. Martin Luther King...
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