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  • Flawed intelligence bill advances Bush agenda

    Flawed intelligence bill advances Bush agenda

    December 17, 2004

    News Analysis The Bush administration has been pushing an agenda of restricting constitutional rights and increasing the power of the executive branch to suppress dissent. Step by step, starting with the USA Patriot Act, Bush has...

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  • Send greetings to the Cuban 5

    Send greetings to the Cuban 5

    December 17, 2004

    Five Cuban men are in U.S. jails, three of them for the rest of their lives. Their “crime” was defending their country from terrorism by monitoring the activities of violent, right-wing, anti-Cuba groups based in Miami....

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  • Festival of Lights & Rights boosts strikers

    Festival of Lights & Rights boosts strikers

    December 17, 2004

    PORTLAND, Ore. — In the spirit of the holidays, 300 people joined a picket line outside the Parry Center for Children Dec. 10, protesting the starvation wages that forced the 85 child care workers on strike...

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  • Weve just begun to fight

    Weve just begun to fight

    December 17, 2004

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — About 100 labor and progressive activists packed the New Haven People’s Center Dec. 5 to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Communist Party USA at a reception hosted by the Connecticut Bureau...

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  • Bush raid on Social Security stirs growing alarm

    Bush raid on Social Security stirs growing alarm

    December 17, 2004

    PITTSBURGH — Alarms are going off in union halls, churches and senior citizen residences across the country as the Bush administration kicks into gear its campaign to privatize Social Security. On Dec. 15, President Bush convened...

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