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NYC labor to protest at GOP convention
July 16, 2004NEW YORK – In a break from a more than 20-year tradition, this city’s labor movement will forego its usual celebratory parade and instead hold a Labor Day protest of the Bush administration in front of...
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Senate report: Iraq intelligence was wrong
July 16, 2004Although 20 percent of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Iraq remains secret, what was released July 9 sheds the cold light of day on the Bush administration’s intelligence used to support its first-strike policy...
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Cuba caravan stops in Houston
July 16, 2004HOUSTON – The 15th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba stopped here on July 3 and was greeted by African drummers at the SHAPE Community Center. The caravan is a nonviolent, non-licensed protest of the travel restrictions against...
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Race is on to oust Bush, say 8,000 NAACP delegates
July 16, 2004PHILADELPHIA – “The race is on, and the consequences of loss” in the 2004 elections “are almost too dire to bear,” Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, told the organization’s 95th annual convention held here July...
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Unions UNITE HERE for greater power
July 16, 2004CHICAGO – Two of the nation’s most active unions formalized their merger here July 8-10. The action put into life the kind of new tactics that their leaders say are needed to reverse the decline of...
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