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Philadelphia workers fight for union rights
September 29, 2007PHILADELPHIA — The City of Brotherly Love witnessed two rallies Sept. 5 that highlighted the challenges workers face when trying to organize in today’s apparently complex, but in fact brutally simple, anti-union environment. The security guards...
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Pasadenans speak out against Iraq war
September 28, 2007PASADENA, Calif. — Environmentalists and peace activists united under the umbrella group “Environmentalists Against the War” to hold a vigil at one of the busiest intersections here, Lake Avenue and the 210 Freeway, from 5-7 p.m....
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Unusual coalition wins judgeship nod in N.Y.
September 28, 2007BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This is not a big election year here, but on Sept.18 there were primaries for two state district judgeships and for the much more important County Surrogate judgeship. Usually the Brooklyn Democratic machine,...
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Always Jewish, lately Palestinian
September 28, 2007I am Jewish because the love of others made me so. I am Jewish because I grew up on the South Side of Chicago; there even my public school was Jewish. I am Jewish because my...
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A Canadian Reds great restlessness
September 28, 2007BOOK REVIEW A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen By Faith Johnston University of Manitoba Press, 2007 Softcover, 361 pp., $24.95 Faith Johnston’s “A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen”...
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