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  • Letters

    Letters

    August 19, 2005

    Bush in a hidey hole It has been an uplifting week of joy and jubilation seeing the war criminal George Bush pinned down at his hidey hole in Crawford, Texas, by a righteously angry and sorely...

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  • Editorial: No to anti-immigrant racism

    Editorial: No to anti-immigrant racism

    August 19, 2005

    As the economy continues to slide, pressured by oil corporation price gouging at the pump, accelerating corporate layoffs and the Bush war in Iraq, there has been a surge in racist bigotry directed against undocumented workers....

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  • Editorial: Iran: dj vu, all over again?

    Editorial: Iran: dj vu, all over again?

    August 19, 2005

    In an eerie echo of events three years ago, the Bush administration is raising the specter of a U.S. pre-emptive military strike over allegations Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Earlier this month, after long discussions with...

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  • Worker safety & health + organizing = Rx for success

    Worker safety & health + organizing = Rx for success

    August 19, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

    There is no disagreement among all of labor that workers and their unions did a good job mobilizing members to vote in 2004. The problem that most of labor agrees on is that the Democratic Party...

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  • Day labor controversy in Virginia:GOP candidate fishes in troubled waters

    Day labor controversy in Virginia:GOP candidate fishes in troubled waters

    August 19, 2005

    Like many parts of the country, Fairfax County, Va., just west of Washington, D.C., has seen a recent increase in documented and undocumented immigration from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. Like elsewhere, one visible sign...

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