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Workers drown in pink slip deluge
March 12, 2008Only a week after releasing the most dismal consumer spending figures in eight years, the government said, March 7, that 63,000 workers lost their jobs in February — another sure sign that the economy is in...
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What will it take to bring progressive change?
March 11, 2008“I never looked at the primaries before, but this year they got my notice,” a former factory worker now stuck in a low-wage health care job exclaimed to me recently. She stays glued to the election...
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National dialogue needed on our overflowing jails
March 11, 2008In 2008 in the United States of America more than 1 out of every 100 adults is behind bars. A report by the Pew Public Safety Performance Project announced that on Jan. 1, 2008, an estimated...
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African American History Month Participants Ready to Make Change
March 11, 2008NEW HAVEN, CT – Oakland teacher and civil rights activist Cassie Lopez brought people to their feet with her powerful message at African American History Month events in Connecticut held at the New Haven Peoples Center,...
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Story of a massacre
March 11, 2008Colombian troops attacked inside Ecuador on March 1, destroying a camp occupied by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Ecuadorian soldiers later found 23 bodies, including those of five Mexican young people visiting the site....
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