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Letters – March 8, 2008
March 8, 2008Don’t cut afterschool programsThe president’s budget proposal includes a one-two punch aimed right at the heart of afterschool programs. He calls for cutting federal afterschool funding by 27 percent and for reorganizing the current federal program...
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Colombias incursion into Ecuador: Who gains?
March 8, 2008In the last few years a political sea-change has swept away most of the U.S.-sponsored, repressive military dictatorships in South America. Democratically elected and in some cases explicitly socialist-oriented governments predominate from Venezuela and Ecuador to...
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True costs of war
March 8, 2008True costs of war Just in time for the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new book by economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes attempts to project the real cost of the war....
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Privatization of trash-hauling enrages residents
March 8, 2008Workers’ Correspondence UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio – The city council here had planned a quick union-busting decision to privatize waste collection, a sweet-heart deal with non-union Texas-based Inland Waste Service. They figured to give the swift boot...
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Mexican-American Emma Tenayuca fought for women workers
March 8, 2008By 1934, Emma Tennyuca she was 18-years-old and was arrested for her leadership role in the organization of Mexican women in the Finck Cigar Strike. It was the first time in San Antonio’s labor history when...
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