Article Listing
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NY budget battle: Much to celebrate and more struggles ahead
May 30, 2003Opinion Many are calling what has taken place in New York’s budget battle “historic.” Should we declare it a victory? What’s ahead for working people in our state? A powerful, sustained outpouring of protest from every...
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Is Cheney the new EPA chief?
May 30, 2003Opinion Gov. Christine Todd Whitman stepped down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency May 21, praising President Bush for his commitment to “innovative, effective” environmental policies in a farewell note. But rumor has it that...
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Timely meeting on an urgent task: Take Back America
May 30, 2003Opinion The “Take Back America” meeting in D.C., is expected to bring 1,000 people to Washington to work out a strategy to defeat George W. Bush and the ultra-right Republicans in the 2004 elections. Sponsored by...
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Letters
May 30, 2003Mt. Olive Pickle steals workers’ lives The disingenuous response from the Mt. Olive Pickle Company answering the March 26 rally by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee is a good example of how they maintain a cheap,...
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Editorials
May 30, 2003Mourn the dead and organize for peace Many mourned the death of 145 U.S. soldiers in the Iraq War this past Memorial Day weekend. Surely the deepest grief is suffered by mothers and fathers – both...
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