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Sinn Fein leader meets with NYC transit workers
May 13, 2005NEW YORK — Gerry Adams, member of parliament from Northern Ireland and the president of Sinn Fein, the political party of the Irish republican movement, addressed a capacity crowd of trade unionists and guests at a...
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Students hungry for justice for campus workers
May 13, 2005WASHINGTON — Georgetown University is the new battleground for social justice in our nation. Twenty-two student activists, members of the Living Wage Coalition, took the heroic step of declaring a hunger strike here March 15. They...
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Grassroots defense of Social Security deepens
May 13, 2005Bush got a rocky welcome to Denver, March 21, in the 17th stop on his 60-city, election-style campaign to sell the privatization of Social Security. “We’re here to tell him to go back home!” Colorado AFL-CIO...
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Ex-soldier says he was asked to kill Haitian leader
May 13, 2005Anel Belizaire, an ex-soldier in Haiti who recently escaped from the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, says that someone from interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue’s office asked him last month to murder fellow inmate Yvon Neptune. Neptune...
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From Selma to Ohio
May 13, 2005The 1965 Selma, Ala., events were a milestone in the great struggle for liberation. With the overthrow of Reconstruction in 1877, it had been a long, bloody road of struggle against the system of Jim Crow...
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