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American Axle strikers solid
March 21, 2008Inside UAW Local 235 in Hamtramck, across the street from the largest of the struck American Axle plants, Ray Wood, President of UAW Local 14 at the GM powertrain in Toledo was speaking to Local President...
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Labor launches McCain Revealed campaign
March 21, 2008Everywhere Republican presidential candidate John McCain goes these days he is finding union activists confronting him on economic issues and demanding that he speak to working families’ concerns. Since March 1, union members have held actions...
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World notes: March 22, 2008
March 21, 2008Cuba: Literacy milestone reached Speaking to reporters, Cuban Minister of Education Luis Ignacio Gomez indicated that as of March 13 three million people worldwide have learned to read and write through the Cuban method of literacy...
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Obama delivers unprecedented speech on race in America
March 20, 2008Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Mar. 18 delivered what some are calling an unprecedented and remarkable speech on race and the struggle for unity in the United States. Responding to issues that have been raised sharply...
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Obama speaks with empathy and compassion about racism in America
March 20, 2008I am profoundly impressed by Barack Obama's speech on racism in American politics. It is a speech that Hillary Clinton could not have made about any issue, a speech that John McCain would probably sneer at...
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