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  • CD REVIEW Twenty-first century labor music

    CD REVIEW Twenty-first century labor music

    August 6, 2009

    “Dump the Bosses Off Your Back” By Anne Feeney 2008“New Hard Times” By Bill Collins and The Rabble Rousers 2008 Labor music inevitably reflects broader social trends. The ongoing interplay with church hymns and military marching...

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  • Hundreds hear Kucinich at Illinois Healthcare Speak Out

    Hundreds hear Kucinich at Illinois Healthcare Speak Out

    August 6, 2009

    AURORA, Ill. - The peace movement jumped into the nationwide upsurge for health care reform in a big way last Sunday when two big antiwar organizations in Chicago's far western suburbs, Aurora Citizens for Peace and...

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  • SLIDE SHOW Faces of health care fight

    SLIDE SHOW Faces of health care fight

    August 6, 2009 By Pepe Lozano

    On Aug. 4, some 800 Illinois residents, political leaders, union members and health care experts came together to demand quality, affordable health care for all. Rally sponsors included Health Care for America Now, Illinois Citizen Action...

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  • Lozano launches bid for state office

    Lozano launches bid for state office

    August 6, 2009 By John Bachtell

    The announcement was made at the site of the new Little Village High School, symbolic of the many struggles waged by Chicago’s Mexican American community and a beacon of hope for the future.

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  • Fair development is big issue in latest Thompson endorsement

    Fair development is big issue in latest Thompson endorsement

    August 6, 2009

    NEW YORK — The campaign of Bill Thompson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the November election, continues to pick up steam, this time gaining the endorsement of 15,000-member Retail, Wholesale, and...

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