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EDITORIAL: May Day—a great day to support the workers newspaper
April 3, 2009May 1 — May Day — International Workers’ Holiday, and now, increasingly, a day to march for immigrant rights. This important world celebration, which was born right here in Chicago, USA, is being reclaimed by the...
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Hitting the streets for the budget
April 3, 2009Volunteers knock on doors for health care, education and clean energyWASHINGTON — Organizing for America volunteers have gone door-to-door in all 50 states and collected more than 640,000 signatures on pledges of support for President Obama’s...
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Hitting the streets for the budget
April 3, 2009Volunteers knock on doors for health care, education and clean energyWASHINGTON — Organizing for America volunteers have gone door-to-door in all 50 states and collected more than 640,000 signatures on pledges of support for President Obama’s...
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Immigrants face detentions, few rights
April 3, 2009(AP) America's detention system for immigrants has mushroomed in the last decade, a costly building boom that was supposed to sweep up criminals and ensure that undocumented immigrants were quickly shown the door. Instead, an Associated...
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Decline in support for employee free choice a figment of Big Bizs imagination
April 3, 2009Joe the Plumber outed on EFCA Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act are attempting to fool both elected officials and the media into thinking that there’s a grassroots movement against the bill. Fearful of the...
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