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  • Health crisis hits kids

    Health crisis hits kids

    April 30, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    When you have over 40 million people without any health insurance at all – and another 70 million with limited and poor coverage – while suffering is widespread, some categories of people are at greater risk.

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  • Cintas workers seek safety and justice

    Cintas workers seek safety and justice

    April 30, 2004

    News analysis Just hearing Cintas workers tell their stories about sorting out wormy, moldy and flammable shop towels without proper ventilation is nauseating. Area clergy took these concerns about intolerable and dangerous health hazards straight to...

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  • Leonard Peltier struggles on for freedom

    Leonard Peltier struggles on for freedom

    April 30, 2004

    After 28 years, the courts still won’t correct the wrongs of the past. On April 19 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ denial of Leonard Peltier’s request to be...

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  • When it comes to jobs, shoot for the moon

    When it comes to jobs, shoot for the moon

    April 30, 2004

    The name is the Apollo Project. And no, it’s not about Bush’s trip to Mars. It’s about jobs and cleaner energy.

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    April 30, 2004

    HOOVER, Ala.: Residents defend immigrant workers Since April 14, over 50 immigrant workers have been “detained” here, kicking residents into action in defense of immigrant rights and protesting racial profiling. According Chip Lollar of the Birmingham...

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