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  • Report says poverty rife in Northern Ireland

    Report says poverty rife in Northern Ireland

    April 1, 2005

    A recently published study has found that poverty in the north of Ireland is worse than in the south of Ireland or Britain. The main findings include the fact that well over a quarter of Northern...

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  • Antiwar actions span the nation

    Antiwar actions span the nation

    April 1, 2005

    The March 18-20 weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. At least 765 towns and cities, in all 50 states, held antiwar actions. Last week’s PWW reported from a national action in...

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  • Rocking Arnold’s world

    Rocking Arnold’s world

    April 1, 2005 By Joseph Hancock And Kelly McConnell

    LOS ANGELES — When musical composer Aaron Copland was commissioned by the Works Projects Administration to write “Fanfare for the Common Man,” it must have been with public workers in mind.

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  • Calif. labor takes up ballot initiative fight

    Calif. labor takes up ballot initiative fight

    April 1, 2005

    As Gov. Arnold Schwarzen-egger continues to threaten a special election next November to press his pro-corporate agenda, a broad and growing coalition is fighting back with positive initiatives to benefit California’s ordinary people. The Alliance for...

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    April 1, 2005

    Don’t privatize!SALINAS, Calif.: Library to hold emergency ‘read-in’ The United Farm Workers of America and the AFL-CIO are working with the peace group Code Pink and community groups to keep library doors open in this city...

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