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Letters: Sept. 20, 2008
September 20, 2008Heavy toll on Afghan children More reports coming out of Afghanistan indicate more dead children (“Protests grow over civilian deaths,” PWW 9/6-12). Civilian casualties are a perpetual reality in Afghanistan. In July, 47 were killed in...
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GOP targets key states with dirty tricks
September 20, 2008The AFL-CIO has launched a new voting rights protection program to help protect working-class voters against dirty tricks in the fall elections. My Vote, My Right aims “to ensure votes cast at the ballot box are...
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Immokalee slavery case called ‘beyond outrage’
September 20, 2008In a federal case, five members of a family in Immokalee, Fla., pleaded guilty Sept. 2 to enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan farm workers for more than two years. Slavery in the United States has been banned...
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McCain-Palin attacks fall flat with Latinos
September 20, 2008The Republican attack machine has launched a multifaceted offensive to falsely accuse Democrat Barak Obama of being anti-immigrant. In Spanish-language ads directed at Latino voters in the battleground states of Florida, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada,...
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Wall Street meltdown wallops Main Street
September 20, 2008The most serious financial crisis since the 1930s exploded this week, plunging global markets into a meltdown, pushing credit card rates up, threatening life savings and pensions, hiking the jobless rate, and sending John McCain and...
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