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Soldiers mom reveals Iraq nightmare
April 23, 2004Mother’s Day has a bitter twist for Pat Gunn. Her son, Army Specialist Jason Gunn, was sent to Iraq on Mother’s Day 2003. He sustained horrifying injuries in an explosion there last November, and a military...
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Freedom Ride Summer Project
April 16, 2004Activists who want to spend four to six weeks this summer doing voter registration and direct support actions for immigrant rights can apply to the New American Opportunities Campaign, a project of the Immigrant Workers Freedom...
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Building trades launch Labor with Habitat
April 16, 2004WASHINGTON – Habitat for Humanity International will launch Labor with Habitat Week, May 16-22, to recognize its national partnership with the Building and Construction Trades Department-AFL-CIO and its 15 affiliated trade unions representing more than 3...
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Jean Harnish, equality advocate, dies at 89
April 16, 2004BALTIMORE – Jean Harnish, a social worker and an advocate for race and gender equality, died in her sleep at the home of friends March 30, her 89th birthday. She was a reader of the People’s...
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Human rights inspectors needed in U.S.
April 16, 2004CHICAGO – In general, academic conferences are not filled with the stuff that makes great news stories. All to often, when “learned” folks get together, the result is a long discussion that produces little real-world application....
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