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Quito gathering condemns U.S. military bases
March 16, 2007The Bush administration took two big hits this month in Latin America. Not only did demonstrations dog the president across five nations, but the U.S. military, claiming 95 percent of the world’s foreign bases, was in...
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Women key to advances in Congress
March 16, 2007In the first 11 weeks of the 110th Congress, several pieces of progressive legislation, including the Employee Free Choice Act and an increase in the minimum wage, have passed in the House. With the new Democratic...
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8,000 Mississippi shipyard workers go on strike
March 16, 2007Eight thousand workers in Pascagoula, Miss., still picking up the pieces of their lives shattered by Hurricane Katrina, went out on strike at Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard March 8. Striking workers were still picketing last week...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 16, 2007TACOMA, Wash.: 31 antiwar protesters arrested at port Eight antiwar demonstrators were arrested earlier this month when they crossed a white police line separating them from the Port of Tacoma. The shipping port is a loading...
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Movement for peace grows in Connecticut
March 16, 2007Even as U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman steps up his support for the Bush administration’s war on Iraq, the movement for peace grows in his home state. Connecticut residents, young and old, gathered in 24 old-fashioned town...
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