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  • Cuban life, beauty and complexity  in black and white

    Cuban life, beauty and complexity in black and white

    September 22, 2006

    Cuba Photographs by Jack Kenny Corazon Press, 2005 Hardcover, 120 pp., $65The island nation of Cuba is one of the most fabled places on earth. Just the mention of its name evokes a plethora of images,...

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  • Dont lie to us

    Dont lie to us

    September 22, 2006

    Workers’ CorrespondenceThe drive to organize 2,000 workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital moved into high gear this year when the hospital signed a landmark community benefits agreement. In addition to addressing community concerns about jobs, housing, education...

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  • Peoples assembly names Lopez Obrador president

    Peoples assembly names Lopez Obrador president

    September 22, 2006

    Delegates to an extraordinary National Democratic Convention in Mexico City last weekend chose Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as Mexico’s new president. They also decided to continue the campaign of peaceful civil resistance to prevent the officially...

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  • Hotel workers celebrate new pact

    Hotel workers celebrate new pact

    September 22, 2006

    SAN FRANCISCO — Celebration was in the air as union members gathered with Unite Here Local 2 President Mike Casey at the local’s headquarters Sept. 13 to announce a tentative agreement in their two-year contract struggle...

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    September 22, 2006

    BALTIMORE: NAACP keeps tax-exempt status When NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a scathing critique of the Bush administration’s policies regarding the Iraq war, education and the economy at the civil rights organization’s 2004 convention, he did...

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