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From plains to shining sea The call is ‘Dump Bush!’
October 1, 2004Heartland unionists put in long hours MOORHEAD, Minn. — Standing in a factory parking lot here on a sparkling September day, surrounded by fields of sugar beets, corn and soybeans that stretch as far as the...
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Health care tops list in California
October 1, 2004SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Health care is taking center stage in the election campaign here, as the struggle heats up over Proposition 72, the Health Insurance Act, which will provide health insurance to over a million uninsured...
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GRASSROOTS POWER
September 25, 2004Polls wrong, keep up the fight Just got off the phone with friends. We have all — to a person — agreed that the polls have absolutely no logic. I travel the whole state regularly and...
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Hotel workers seek industry-wide contract
September 25, 2004LOS ANGELES — By an overwhelming 83 percent vote, 2,000 hotel workers here voted Sept. 15 to authorize their union to call a strike if needed. The Local 11 UNITE HERE members joined fellow unionists in...
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Anthony Toney, painter, educator, activist
September 25, 2004Anthony Toney, a noted New York painter whose career spanned 70 years, died Sept. 10 in Marin County, Calif., at 91. At the height of his career, Toney exhibited regularly in New York, taught classes throughout...
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