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  • Striking Tyson Foods workers hold firm

    Striking Tyson Foods workers hold firm

    July 1, 2003 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

    JEFFERSON, Wis. – Solidarity with striking Tyson Foods workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 538, continues to grow as 500 strikers and supporters rallied here June 22. As the strike approaches its fifth...

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  • Iraq quagmire echoes Vietnam

    Iraq quagmire echoes Vietnam

    July 1, 2003 By Susan Webb

    Talk of a U.S. quagmire in Iraq is mounting as attacks on U.S. and British soldiers ratchet upward. A harrowing report in the London Evening Standard June 15 gives a graphic picture of traumatized American soldiers...

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  • High court upholds affirmative action

    High court upholds affirmative action

    July 1, 2003

    WASHINGTON – The grassroots movement that marched and rallied in defense of affirmative action over the last decade hailed the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision, June 23, upholding race-conscious admissions programs at the University of...

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  • High court upholds affirmative action

    High court upholds affirmative action

    June 27, 2003

    WASHINGTON – The grassroots movement that marched and rallied in defense of affirmative action over the last decade hailed the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision, June 23, upholding race-conscious admissions programs at the University of...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    June 26, 2003

    SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Feed the hungry or the corporations? Bill Camp, executive secretary of the Sacramento AFL-CIO, led 1,000 workers, environmentalists, and food activists through city streets to the State Capitol steps protesting the invitation-only, U.S. government-sponsored...

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