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8,000 Mississippi shipyard workers go on strike
March 16, 2007Eight thousand workers in Pascagoula, Miss., still picking up the pieces of their lives shattered by Hurricane Katrina, went out on strike at Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard March 8. Striking workers were still picketing last week...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 16, 2007TACOMA, Wash.: 31 antiwar protesters arrested at port Eight antiwar demonstrators were arrested earlier this month when they crossed a white police line separating them from the Port of Tacoma. The shipping port is a loading...
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Movement for peace grows in Connecticut
March 16, 2007Even as U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman steps up his support for the Bush administration’s war on Iraq, the movement for peace grows in his home state. Connecticut residents, young and old, gathered in 24 old-fashioned town...
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TAKE ACTION: Tell your senator to pass EFCA
March 16, 2007The AFL-CIO is mobilizing its unions to line up the 60 Senate votes needed to halt a planned Republican filibuster against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The EFCA, which requires companies to recognize a union...
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Notes from Guatemala and Colombia
March 16, 2007On March 12 Guatemalan President Oscar Berger took Bush to the Mayan sacred site Iximche. Hundreds of indigenous people carried out a vigil for 24 hours in nearby Tecpan that a leader described as “an act...
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