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  • L.A. labor challenges county board

    L.A. labor challenges county board

    April 8, 2005

    News Analysis LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles area labor movement, spearheaded by the 800,000-member Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, is turning its attention to reversing the anti-worker trend of the powerful Los Angeles County...

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  • Happy birthday, Paul Robeson

    Happy birthday, Paul Robeson

    April 8, 2005

    April 9 is the 107th birthday of one of the foremost African Americans of the 20th century — Paul Robeson.

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  • Rallies around the nation

    Rallies around the nation

    April 8, 2005

    SAN FRANCISCO: Some 2,000 demonstrators made a human chain surrounding San-Francisco-based Charles Schwab home office March 31. Demonstrators also demanded that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drop his proposal to privatize pensions for all new public workers. Schwab...

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  • Calif. govs ballot measures rev up opposition

    Calif. govs ballot measures rev up opposition

    March 11, 2005

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s road trip last week to gather signatures on three pet ballot measures has raised the likelihood of a special election later this year featuring a series of anti-people initiatives. Labor and community organizations...

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  • Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds

    Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds

    March 4, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

    Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. The names of the three civil rights martyrs still ring like a bell four decades after they disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 21, 1964. Their deaths, together with the violence inflicted...

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