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  • The real New Orleans disaster wasnt natural

    The real New Orleans disaster wasnt natural

    December 9, 2005

    When Hurricane Katrina tore up the roof of my house, it didn’t care that I’m Black. My white neighbors, like my Black neighbors, saw trees fall on their homes and saw their refrigerators rot and mold....

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  • Letters

    Letters

    December 9, 2005

    Steinbrenner tramples parks The spirit and energy of Rosa Parks in refusing to give up her seat on the bus lives on right now in the Bronx where the community is fighting to keep its park...

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  • Editorial: Worlds worst rights abuser

    Editorial: Worlds worst rights abuser

    December 9, 2005

    We observe United Nations Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, with a sobering realization: In the opinion of hundreds of millions of people around the world, the Bush administration has become the worst human rights abuser of...

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  • Editorial: Right to organize is a human right

    Editorial: Right to organize is a human right

    December 9, 2005

    AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was greeted with a standing ovation when he told a crowd at a Quaker Meeting House in Philadelphia, Dec. 6, that union rights are human rights and workers everywhere must stand up...

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  • Dec. 10: Workers rights are human rights

    Dec. 10: Workers rights are human rights

    December 9, 2005

    A major new push for workers’ rights to form unions was kicked off this week at scores of events from Albuquerque to Orlando, leading up to International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. The right of workers...

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