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  • Leaders urge no vote on Prop. 54

    Leaders urge no vote on Prop. 54

    August 15, 2003

    LOS ANGELES – Civil rights leaders and public officials announced their opposition to Proposition 54 at an Aug. 12 press conference on the steps of City Hall here. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn called Prop. 54...

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  • Freedom Ride building solidarity and unity

    Freedom Ride building solidarity and unity

    August 15, 2003

    Opinion As the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride travels through 81 cities across the country, the impact is sure to reverberate far and wide. Already, organizing rallies are creating new bonds among a broad cross section of...

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  • Vets in same boat as injured workers

    Vets in same boat as injured workers

    August 15, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Sick and injured war veterans and victims of industrial workplace accidents have a lot in common. Both are treated disgracefully.

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  • Wal-Mart campaign tops UFCW agenda

    Wal-Mart campaign tops UFCW agenda

    August 15, 2003

    Organizing Wal-Mart, dealing with the crisis in U.S. health care, and defeating George Bush in 2004 were recurring themes in the international convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) held in San Francisco...

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  • The Office of Tax Propaganda

    The Office of Tax Propaganda

    August 15, 2003 By Art Perlo

    The honesty-impaired Bush administration does not limit its deception to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When it comes to taxes, the spin starts when they call their program the “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Act...

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