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Support Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia
April 9, 2004Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia is a soldier with the Florida National Guard who has served in both the Army and National Guard for over eight years. He served in Iraq from March to October 2003. He...
Read moreJobs report not so rosy
April 9, 2004In Ohio, one of the presidential battleground states, the news that the economy created 308,000 new jobs last month was met with a healthy dose of working-class skepticism.
Read moreHip-hoppers hope to GOTV
April 2, 2004CHICAGO – On a rainy Thursday night, March 25, over 200 young Black adults came together in Chicago’s newest community center named in honor of the late Harold Washington. It was located in the heart of...
Read morePinocchios nose and the lie factory
April 2, 2004Opinion Many years ago, Italian children’s author Carlo Collodi wrote a story about a wooden marionette, Pinocchio. This story comes to mind when people lie repeatedly – like Pinocchio, we imagine their noses growing as the...
Read moreTeachers and their union fight for public education
April 2, 2004An interview with Chicago Teachers Union President Deborah Lynch The most important thing we can do to reverse NCLB is defeat Bush in November.
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