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Opposition to racist sheriff’s ‘saturation raids’ grows
April 23, 2008PHOENIX – Elected officials, religious leaders, community organizations and civil libertarians have joined a rising chorus here of Arizonans condemning the blatantly racist grandstanding of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Since January 1, Arpaio's office has...
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U.S. and Mexican workers join hands
April 23, 2008The AFL-CIO announced April 17 that it has entered into a formal alliance with Enlace, a coalition of 21 Mexican labor rights groups representing 300,000 low-wage workers in that country. Federation president John J. Sweeney said...
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Tell Congress to take action on global warming
April 23, 2008Imagine hundreds of thousands of calls flooding Congressional phone lines. That is what LCV and our coalition partners plan to generate today—Earth Day—to demand action on global warming. As the global warming crisis continues to worsen,...
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Workers Correspondence: ARAMARK workers in Houston fight for justice
April 23, 2008I attended the Cesar Chavez march in Houston on March 29. Leaders of many unions were there continuing the battles fought by that great union leader. About 200 people from a wide variety of ethnic and...
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They take care of their own
April 23, 2008If 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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