Peace
Philadelphians rally for peace and jobs
April 23, 2004PHILADELPHIA – Over 300 people packed the hospital and health care workers District 1199C union hall here on April 17 to hear public officials, trade unionists, peace activists and others blast the Bush war policies and...
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Message to Mom: Time to buy a new ironing board
April 23, 2004With great ceremony, my mother threw her iron away one afternoon in June 1972. After 20 years of night classes and four children, she had proudly graduated from college that morning. To be honest, the appliance...
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Sharon-Bush plan inflames Mideast conflict
April 23, 2004President Bush’s endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan, coupled with the Sharon government’s assassination of two leaders of the Hamas movement in Gaza, has inflamed tensions in the Middle East and jeopardized prospects...
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Soldiers mom reveals Iraq nightmare
April 23, 2004Mother’s Day has a bitter twist for Pat Gunn. Her son, Army Specialist Jason Gunn, was sent to Iraq on Mother’s Day 2003. He sustained horrifying injuries in an explosion there last November, and a military...
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Lawmakers on Iraq: Bring the troops home! Bring the UN in!
April 16, 2004WASHINGTON – The first anniversary of the Iraq war was observed with mass peace demonstrations and by peace advocates in the House and Senate demanding that U.S. troops be brought home, replaced by United Nations peacekeepers....
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