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  • They take care of their own

    They take care of their own

    April 26, 2008

    If anything ever smelled of cronyism and favoritism it was the recent decision by the Federal Reserve to set up a special bargain basement where cheap loans are now available to Wall Street kingpins largely responsible...

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  • Letters – April 26, 2008

    Letters – April 26, 2008

    April 26, 2008

    Rebuff ‘gotcha’ politics Just a personal info piece on the whole thing the ultra-right started and Hillary Clinton is now joining into regarding Barack Obama and Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. This is an...

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  • Whats on

    Whats on

    April 26, 2008

    BERKELEY, Calif. May 3, Sat., café 7 p.m., cabaret 8 p.m. The Bolshevik Café: Music, stand-up comedy & spoken word plus display: 50 years of political posters, t-shirts & other left memorabilia. Put the social in...

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  • Why young people should get involved with unions

    Why young people should get involved with unions

    April 26, 2008 By Clara Webb

    Scanning the room at my first teachers union event, I could see that I was one of the youngest teachers in attendance. It got me thinking about my generation and possible explanations for its lack of...

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  • Flag pins dont cover hypocrisy

    Flag pins dont cover hypocrisy

    April 26, 2008

    A disturbing study released last week by the RAND Corporation says about 300,000 service members and veterans — nearly one in five of the 1.6 million U.S. troops who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan —...

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