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  • This decision will not stand

    This decision will not stand

    July 13, 2007

    NEA vows fight for integrated schoolsPHILADELPHIA — Some 9,000 National Education Association delegates wrapped up their four-day national assembly here in an upbeat mood, determined to continue their active opposition to the Bush education agenda. Among...

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  • Communists map agenda for unity, progressive change

    Communists map agenda for unity, progressive change

    July 13, 2007 By Teresa Albano

    NEW YORK — The mood was upbeat as leaders of the Communist Party and invited guests met here July 7-8. Buoyed by the sea change in the country’s atmosphere since last fall’s congressional elections, meeting participants...

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  • Women unite vs. domestic violence

    Women unite vs. domestic violence

    July 13, 2007

    PITTSBURGH — Domestic violence takes place behind drawn shades and frequently in front of children, who are often victims, and falls into the “dirty little secret” category of the law, where women’s voices and pleas fall...

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  • War toll mounts … White House panics as GOPers jump ship on Iraq

    War toll mounts … White House panics as GOPers jump ship on Iraq

    July 13, 2007

    WASHINGTON — Lawmakers returned to the capital from a July 4th recess with their constituents’ urgent demands for an end to the Iraq war still ringing in their ears. The pressure is so intense that Republican...

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  • Metal workers strike on eve of SACP meet

    Metal workers strike on eve of SACP meet

    July 13, 2007

    PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa - It’s winter in South Africa and without the central heating those of us who come from northern climates are used to, its mighty cold, especially in the mornings. But the sun...

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