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In budget battle, Calif. governor threatens state workers pay
July 26, 2008State workers are reacting with outrage to reports July 23 that Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign an executive order on July 28, temporarily cutting pay for over 200,000 state employees to the federal minimum...
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The genius of Ewan MacColl, lifelong artist & activist
July 26, 2008BOOK REVIEW Ewan MacColl is best known as the writer of the Grammy-winning “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” the love song he wrote for his wife and musical partner, Peggy Seeger. But not...
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Challenging the Christian rights crusade
July 26, 2008DVD REVIEW The Christian right claims that in speaking out against gay rights it only adheres to Biblical orthodoxy. After all, the Bible says that homosexuality is wrong, doesn’t it? Daniel Karslake’s persuasive documentary “For The...
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This Jokers no joke
July 26, 2008Heath Ledger as the “Joker” in “The Dark Night” has many speculating he may win an Academy Award posthumously for the role. Ledger died last January of an accidental prescription drug overdose at age 28. The...
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LETTERS: JULY 26
July 26, 2008Struggle vs. supply and demand The global class struggle was unfortunately absent from the analysis of expensive oil in “Oil dreams” (PWW 7/5-11). The article also failed to mention monopolization of the oil industry, its ties...
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