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New industrial union pushes working-class power
April 22, 2005LAS VEGAS — It was the fire from below that powered up the merger convention of the USWA and PACE, held here April 11-14. Five thousand workers, their families and guests shared stories of battles on...
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Workers Memorial Day 2005: In Memory of Gary Puleio
April 15, 2005Gary was killed on the job at a concrete plant on August 15, 2001. He had been employed there only three months as a cement truck driver and fell 25 feet to his death, from a...
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Nuts and bolts of building the U.S. global empire
April 15, 2005Book Review Have you ever wondered how the U.S. government and big business gained global power, the nuts and bolts of it? How they were able to bypass Congress in this effort? John Perkins gives us...
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Chicagos Latino film fest countrys oldest
April 15, 2005CHICAGO — Pepe Vargas, from Colombia, was working a job, going to ESL classes and taking college courses when he put the Latino Film Festival on the Chicago map. Twenty-one years later, it is the nation’s...
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U.S. military killing the witnesses
April 15, 2005NEW YORK — José Couso, a Spanish journalist, died April 8, 2003, when an American tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The hotel was housing 300 journalists, and was considered an oasis of safety...
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