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Celebrating Black history in Connecticut
March 9, 2007Proclaiming the theme, “We Will Not Be Silent,” the 33rd annual African American History Month celebrations of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo in Connecticut stirred inspiration and activism last weekend. At events in Hartford and New...
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WHATS REALLY GOOD
March 9, 2007Rage and Wu are back! Guerilla Union’s Rock The Bells music festival is scheduled this summer and is about to make history again with Rage Against The Machine, who will reunite and rock the stage headlining...
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Privatization, no way
March 9, 2007NEW YORK — Students, parents and teachers fed up with the Bloomberg administration’s drive to privatize public education took over Second Avenue for an evening rally Feb. 27, to protest plans by Mayor Bloomberg and Schools...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 9, 2007CHICAGO: Hospital workers demand right to organize “If they feel they can hang up on a congresswoman, just imagine what they think they can do to their workers,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky told over 1,000 nurses, housekeepers...
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Labor sends a statement in Chicago
March 9, 2007“We sent a statement,” declared Dennis Gannon, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), in the afterglow of the Feb. 27 municipal elections. And what a statement it was. Organized labor and its community allies...
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