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Nationalize that! Why should Alice and Mike give a damn about failing banks?
February 28, 2009Alice is 31 years old. She and her husband Mike both have jobs but are worried about losing them given the economic decline. They would like to buy a house but are afraid to now, and...
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Struggling workers, Biden and Solis to be part of AFL-CIO gathering
February 28, 2009MIAMI — Hilda Solis, the former Latina congresswoman from East Los Angeles and now the U.S. Secretary of Labor, south Florida workers reeling from the tanking economy, and national labor leaders will kick off a four...
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A woman loved by millions: Rosa Luxemburg
February 28, 2009The remains of the small middle-aged woman were found in June; her brutalized body had been dumped into the Berlin canal in January. That was in 1919. Ninety years later many Germans and people on every...
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Obama to order the beginning of the end of U.S. war in Iraq
February 28, 2009United For Peace and Justice statement on Obama's Iraq withdrawal plan President Obama is scheduled to announce a plan today to pull all combat troops out of Iraq by 19 months from his inauguration -- August...
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The gender card
February 28, 2009Once again, we see that there are no boundaries when it comes to making outrageously sexist remarks with impunity. The latest example can be found in a nationally televised interview involving former Republican Congressman Dick Armey.
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