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  • OPINION: 10 things to consider in the voting booth

    OPINION: 10 things to consider in the voting booth

    November 4, 2008 By Norman Markowitz

    1. The world is quite likely on the brink of a global depression. “Free market” economic policies are the key to understanding this crisis. Barack Obama has rejected these policies. John McCain now blames individuals, greedy...

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  • Labor, Virginia and Obama

    Labor, Virginia and Obama

    November 4, 2008

    RICHMOND, Va. — Members of more than a dozen AFL-CIO unions packed the Communications Workers Local 2201 union hall here, Nov. 2, divided up into 30 teams and fanned out across north Richmond to get out...

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  • Author, activist Studs Terkel dies at 96

    Author, activist Studs Terkel dies at 96

    November 2, 2008

    CHICAGO (AP) — Studs Terkel captured the essence of Chicago in the pages of his best-selling oral histories, chronicling common people and celebrities alike. Along the way he became an ageless master of listening and speaking,...

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  • Health workers strike for safe staffing, job security

    Health workers strike for safe staffing, job security

    November 1, 2008 By Marilyn Bechtel

    Bright purple tee-shirts filled the plaza at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, as striking health care workers gathered to demand the highly profitable company improve staffing levels, stop contracting work out and drop proposed takeaways in...

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  • OPINION: The coming landslide

    OPINION: The coming landslide

    November 1, 2008

    Barack Obama has correctly reminded his supporters and staff not to get cocky, to remember the lessons of his New Hampshire primary loss. Nothing can be taken for granted, especially in the era of Republican voter...

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