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Refinery workers take up collection for Iraqi child
March 10, 2006Sarah, the oldest daughter of Emad Mohsin Jafar, a leader of Iraq’s oil workers union, was burned during a bombing in the first Gulf War, and needs reconstructive surgery. To help Sarah, oil workers at Conoco...
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Immigrant rights: Put mass pressure on Congress now!
March 10, 2006NewsAnalysis This month must see greatly increased pressure from the progressive grassroots, or very nasty anti-immigrant legislation will likely be enacted. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), has presented a draft plan...
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CPUSA call: Oust the GOP in 2006!
March 10, 2006NEW YORK — Leaders of the Communist Party USA, meeting here March 4-5, warned that the Bush administration, aided and abetted by the Republican-majority Congress, has plunged the nation into the “worst constitutional crisis since the...
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S. Dakota passes anti-woman law: Anti-abortion bill hurts poor, part of wider attack on women
March 10, 2006South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Mike Rounds set the stage for an epic women’s rights battle when he signed a state law March 6 making all abortions a crime, including in cases of rape, incest and situations...
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98.6 a healthy number
March 3, 2006Ninety-eight point six is a symbol of good health and that’s the percent of members of Change to Win unions in California whose locals have submitted solidarity charters and are now considered full members of the...
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