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GM employees rally to save jobs
February 27, 2009Original source: Tens of thousands of workers at General Motors Europe's factories demonstrated on Thursday in the battle to save their jobs at Adem Opel AG and other European divisions. Opel's factory in Ruesselsheim provided the...
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Rally: Stop closing schools, education is a right
February 27, 2009CHICAGO – It’s the worst feeling, said Paula Bullard, mother of five, when you have to tell your children that their school is closing. Bullard’s children go to South Chicago elementary in the South Shore neighborhood....
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Letters to the Editor
February 27, 2009Lessons from Massachusetts Flávio Casoy’s recent article on differences within the health care reform movement and within labor misconstrues the facts. There is strong and growing support within labor, and among the people in general, for...
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Afghanistan: war is not the answer
February 27, 2009The good news: President Obama believes military action alone won’t bring peace to Afghanistan. “We’re going to have to use diplomacy; we’re going to have to use development,” he said in a recent television interview. He...
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State of the union
February 27, 2009President Barack Obama’s address to Congress, Feb. 24, was both sober and inspiring. He spelled out the deep economic crisis we are in and blamed decades of trickle-down economics, loss of jobs, bank deregulation, unpayable debt...
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