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  • Texans face school crisis

    Texans face school crisis

    February 27, 2004

    Opinion If disastrous trends in Texas portend bad developments in the rest of the nation, as they have since George W. Bush became governor, then Americans should prepare to fight if we want to save public...

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  • Of the people, by the people, for the people

    Of the people, by the people, for the people

    February 27, 2004

    Opinion Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, long a mouthpiece for U.S. monopoly corporations and Wall Street speculators and now a servant of the big business Bush administration, delivered an economic report to Congress recently that...

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  • Claudia Jones  Dynamic champion of equality

    Claudia Jones Dynamic champion of equality

    February 27, 2004

    Claudia Jones used her brief years (1915-1964) to the fullest. She was involved with everything and everyone having to do with the rights of African descendants and women. Born in Trinidad, Jones arrived in New York...

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  • March 4 action for health care rights

    March 4 action for health care rights

    February 27, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Jobs with Justice and hundreds of local unions, retiree groups and health care advocacy organizations, including the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN), have set a national “Health Care Action Day” to link workers’ struggles against...

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  • Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    February 27, 2004

    The big issue in our contract was health care, which is also the major issue in California, where 70,000 members of our union (United Food and Commercial Workers) are on strike. We took a collection in...

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