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  • Leaders urge no vote on Prop. 54

    Leaders urge no vote on Prop. 54

    August 15, 2003

    LOS ANGELES – Civil rights leaders and public officials announced their opposition to Proposition 54 at an Aug. 12 press conference on the steps of City Hall here. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn called Prop. 54...

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  • Freedom Ride building solidarity and unity

    Freedom Ride building solidarity and unity

    August 15, 2003

    Opinion As the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride travels through 81 cities across the country, the impact is sure to reverberate far and wide. Already, organizing rallies are creating new bonds among a broad cross section of...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    August 15, 2003

    Time for a shorter workweek Over the past two decades, the productivity of labor, due to computer and robotic technology, has vastly increased while the income of workers has stagnated. So far, most of the benefits...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    August 15, 2003

    Looting the treasury The Bush administration’s economic policies are tantamount to looting the national treasury. And that is not just our opinion, but what Nobel Prize winner and economist Prof. Akerlof said to the German magazine...

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  • Vets in same boat as injured workers

    Vets in same boat as injured workers

    August 15, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Sick and injured war veterans and victims of industrial workplace accidents have a lot in common. Both are treated disgracefully.

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