John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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U.S.
Boehner speech offers return to Bush policies
August 26, 2010Speaker of the House-hopeful John Boehner offered a return to Republican policies under George Bush in a recent policy speech, which was light on policy, heavy on lies.
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Opinion
Germans take note of wealth gap in America
August 24, 2010The days when Europeans believed that in America the streets are paved with gold are long over.
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Labor
Disney worker rejects employer’s substitute hijab
August 23, 2010ANAHEIM, Calif. - Is Disney policy part of the Islamophobia being trumpeted by the ultra-right?
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U.S.
Record jobless numbers trigger new alarm
August 20, 2010Despite economic forecasts to the contrary jobless claims rose last week by 12,000 to 500,000, the third straight weekly increase and the first time in nine months that they hit the half-million mark.
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Labor
Disneyland worker sent home for hijab
August 19, 2010A Muslim employee in Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel has been sent home from work with no pay for refusing to take off her hijab while working as a hostess in a hotel restaurant.
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U.S.
‘New’ GOP proposals smell like old ideas
August 19, 2010Responding to criticism that they have no plan to pull the country out of economic crisis, Republicans have begun rolling out a variety of 'new' plans.
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Labor
College grad adds union organizing to job as a laundry hauler
August 18, 2010Unorganized California hotel workers stage a one-day strike.
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U.S.
Oil still a problem in the Gulf, scientists warn
August 18, 2010The oil that BP and the government claim is gone from the Gulf of Mexico is actually still there, and threatens the eco-system, two groups of scientists said this week.
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