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  • War, budget cuts ignite voter rebellion

    War, budget cuts ignite voter rebellion

    November 18, 2005

    WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush’s smear tactics failed to silence his growing opposition as the peace movement and defenders of the poor stepped up their fight against the Iraq war and a Republican proposal to...

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  • Victory for Southwest copper miners; Cross-border solidarity key to win against Asarco

    Victory for Southwest copper miners; Cross-border solidarity key to win against Asarco

    November 18, 2005

    TUCSON, Ariz. — Four long months of holding the picket line have ended in victory for copper strikers in three mines, a concentrator and a smelter in this state and a refinery in Amarillo, Texas. Union...

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  • A Cultural Comeback in the Big Easy

    A Cultural Comeback in the Big Easy

    November 16, 2005

    A Cultural Comeback in the Big Easy -- Jazz funeral, second line, and world debut concert of 'All the Saints,' a newly commissioned work by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and Grammy nominated jazz legend Irvin...

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  • House Drops Arctic Drilling From Bill

    House Drops Arctic Drilling From Bill

    November 11, 2005

    A solid phalanx of Republican moderates drove House GOP leaders to drop a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wilderness area to oil drilling as a sweeping budget bill headed toward a vote Thursday, Nov....

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  • Chicagoans protest naval academy

    Chicagoans protest naval academy

    November 11, 2005

    CHICAGO — With banners reading, “No Military Academy at Senn High School, Teach Peace” and “End the Militarism in Public Schools, Schools are for Learning not for Recruiting,” parents, students and community residents protested at the...

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