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  • NATIONALCLIPS

    NATIONALCLIPS

    March 3, 2006

    ST. PAUL, Minn.: ‘Public services not for sale’ Hundreds of state workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), clogged the halls of the State House March 1, lobbying to prevent...

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  • Key congressional race shaping up in Illinois

    Key congressional race shaping up in Illinois

    March 3, 2006

    LOMBARD, Ill. — The 6th Congressional District covers the western suburbs of Chicago. With its sprawling housing developments, warehouses, office complexes, light manufacturing plants and endless malls, it has become a national battleground to fill the...

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  • At the docks, Bush blamed on port security

    At the docks, Bush blamed on port security

    March 3, 2006

    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The recent sale of Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Navigation Company (P&O), which operates a number of East Coast U.S. ports, to Dubai’s state-owned DP World has raised a political firestorm directed at the...

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  • Specter immigration bill a blueprint for exploitation

    Specter immigration bill a blueprint for exploitation

    March 3, 2006

    NewsAnalysis In the early 17th century the English government established systems of servitude, slave and indentured, for much of the labor imported to its North American colonies. Today the Republican-led U.S. Senate has started debate on...

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  • WHATSREALLYGOOD

    WHATSREALLYGOOD

    March 3, 2006

    ‘No funding for NYU!’ grad students demand Graduate student members of UAW Local 2110, forced on strike since Nov. 9 by New York University, traveled to Albany Feb. 28 to lobby state lawmakers to withhold taxpayer...

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