National
Conyers spearheads health care campaign
March 26, 2004Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) will host a National Health Insurance Conference, April 16-17, to kick off a 50-state campaign for passage of national health insurance legislation, HR 676 – the “Expanded and Improved Medicare for...
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Obama victory inspires hopes for November
March 26, 2004CHICAGO – Barak Obama’s historic, landslide victory in the March 16 Illinois Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate is a victory for independent, grassroots, coalition politics over money and machine politics. Obama now opposes millionaire Republican...
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Ohio outrage: Retirees shafted
March 26, 2004Weirton Steel Corp. announced this week that it would cut off health care benefits for its 10,000 retirees effective April 1. The Steubenville, Ohio-based company had petitioned the bankruptcy court to void its union contract with...
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Dallas takes a stand for civil liberties
March 19, 2004DALLAS – The Dallas City Council passed a resolution Feb. 25 condemning parts of the USA Patriot Act. The vote was the climax of more than two years of hard lobbying by Attorney Chip Pitts, the...
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Prisoners and the right to vote
March 19, 2004Opinion It might surprise you to learn that nearly 5 million of our citizens cannot vote. That is because they are prisoners or former prisoners. Only two states, Maine and Vermont, allow prisoners to vote. In...
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