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Workers tell Bush: Hands off overtime
July 4, 2003WASHINGTON – Hundreds of angry workers from across the nation picketed the U.S. Labor Department June 30 to protest a new Bush administration regulation that could terminate overtime pay for eight million workers. The Labor Department...
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Israeli Communist leader Meir Vilner dies at 84
July 1, 2003Meir Vilner, veteran leader of the Communist Party of Israel and the last living signatory of Israel’s Independence Charter, died June 5 in Tel-Aviv at 84. Vilner was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in...
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Anne Feeney tours Texas
July 1, 2003Every Spring, Texas is favored by a whirlwind tour by folk and labor singer Anne Feeney. She travels by car through the state, north to south, to the famous Kerrville Folk Festival. Coming and going, she...
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The Men of Watergate
July 1, 2003My husband was a supporter of the World for practically all his life. He died Nov. 9, 1999. He wrote poetry. While going through our files, I came across this poem, one I did not know....
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4th of July reading: Revolutionary women
July 1, 2003Book ReviewGlory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution, by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer, Atria Books, 271 pp., $24 Many of us learned about the American Revolution through...
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