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AFL-CIO gears for 2002 election-Maps biggest-ever mid-term election mobilization
March 1, 2002NEW ORLEANS – At its mid-winter meeting in the “Big Easy,” the AFL-CIO Executive Council fleshed out its 2002 election agenda by adopting an “Agenda for America” and taking steps to finance what AFL-CIO President John...
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Women of Wisconsin Steel
March 1, 2002CHICAGO – In the early 1900s, American working women demonstrated for union rights and the right to vote. Their fight inspired the International Socialist Women’s Conference in 1910 to declare March 8 International Women’s Day. Today,...
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Steel jobs hang in balance
March 1, 2002CLEVELAND – The day before the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) descended on the White House to fight for jobs and retiree benefits industry-wide, a deal was announced that will save the jobs of many workers...
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African-American history: The Gabriel Prosser slave revolt
February 22, 2002The following is an excerpt from American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker, New York: International Publishers, 1974, pages 219-226 (original edition: Columbia University Press, 1943). Probably the most fateful year in the history of American...
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Letters
February 22, 2002Israel out of Palestine Israel should pull out of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, so the Palestinians can create a Palestinian state. Jerusalem is a West Bank city. If it is not ceded to the...
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