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EDITORIAL: Celebrate mothers fight for peace, justice
May 12, 2006Certainly it is good that we have displays of devotion on Mother’s Day, roses and chocolates, taking Mom out to dinner. But there is a need to reclaim the idea of Mother’s Day proposed by Julia...
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Three decades later, Agent Orange still ravages Vietnam, GIs
May 12, 2006An unprecedented meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 28-29, proved that wounds from the Vietnam War are still open and bleeding three decades after that conflict supposedly ended. It was the first International Conference of Victims of...
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Gulf Coast Update
May 12, 2006Rally calls for oversight on workers’ rights Workers, community organizations and members of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO marched and rallied at the city’s federal building May 2 to expose the rampant abuses of workers’ rights...
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HR 676 offers Rx for Cover the Uninsured week
May 12, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — A bill establishing a government-run Canadian style single-payer health care system for the U.S., built on Medicare, is gaining union backers, coincidentally as “Cover the Uninsured” week ran from May 1-7. The measure,...
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Defense Dept. goes after vets job preference rights
May 12, 2006HONOLULU (PAI) — Don Bongo is both mad and sad at his military and civilian boss, Donald Rumsfeld. Bongo, you see, wears two hats: In regular life, he is a federal civilian defense worker at Pearl...
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