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Labor working to take back Ohio
February 26, 2004CLEVELAND – On Dec. 9, 1,500 union activists packed the Columbus, Ohio, Veterans Memorial Hall for a “Take Back Ohio/Labor 2004” conference. Energized and determined, they headed home filled with the crusading spirit sweeping the country...
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Students to demand Books not bombs
February 26, 2004The Bush administration has cut funds for education drastically in the past three years, resulting in school closures, tuition hikes, overcrowded classrooms, and thousands of campus layoffs. On Thursday, March 4, thousands of students on hundreds...
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Philly shows brotherly love to grocery strikers
February 20, 2004PHILADELPHIA – At a Feb. 12 rally at a local Acme supermarket, union and community members had a strong message for shoppers here: “Don’t shop at Acme.” Pointing at the store, Pat Eiding, president of the...
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Ishmael Flory, fighter for equality, 96
February 20, 2004Ishmael Flory, veteran trade union organizer, activist in the African American freedom movement, and a longtime leader of the Communist Party in Illinois, died Feb. 4 in Chicago following a long illness. He was 96. Flory...
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A choice for Maine: war and Bush, or health care?
February 20, 2004Opinion Independence – or crankiness – comes naturally for some of us in the Northeast. An active separatist movement is on the move in Vermont. And at a Lewiston, Maine, forum Jan. 11, proponents of universal...
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