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  • Registering voters at barber shops and beauty salons

    Registering voters at barber shops and beauty salons

    August 20, 2008

    Barack Obama’s historic run for the White House recently announced a strategic and ongoing effort to maximize the African American electorate throughout the country in places where Blacks congregate often: barbershops and beauty salons. The Obama...

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  • Wal-Mart bullies workers on elections

    Wal-Mart bullies workers on elections

    August 20, 2008

    Charging retail giant Wal-Mart with illegally pressuring employees to vote for Republicans and John McCain in November, labor unions and community organizations filed a formal complaint last week with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). Wal-Mart held...

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  • Listen to America…

    Listen to America…

    August 20, 2008

    In late July and early August, Listening to America/Platform for Change hearings across the country invited grassroots input for the 2008 Democratic national platform. Below is testimony by steelworker retiree Bruce Bostick at the Aug. 2...

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  • Poultry workers: Poster-child for Employee Free Choice Act

    Poultry workers: Poster-child for Employee Free Choice Act

    August 20, 2008

    WINESBURG, Ohio — After working 20 years at the Case Farms poultry plant here Ken Brown, 55, gets $8.10 an hour. “You can’t live on that,” he said, “especially with the rising prices of fuel and...

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  • Obama will stand by us, say vets

    Obama will stand by us, say vets

    August 20, 2008

    John McCain has developed a veterans problem. In late May, McCain aided a Republican filibuster of the 21st Century GI Bill by refusing to return to the Senate to for a key vote. In fact, McCain...

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