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  • EDITORIAL: American coup anniversary

    EDITORIAL: American coup anniversary

    December 14, 2007

    The following is excerpted from a People’s Weekly World editorial on the Dec. 12, 2000, Supreme Court decision re: Bush v. Gore, which started on page one of that edition. As we head into the 2008...

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  • Using OSHA to win victories: the case of Cintas

    Using OSHA to win victories: the case of Cintas

    December 14, 2007

    There is a tendency among U.S. trade union leaders, shop stewards and rank-and-file activists to strongly distrust federal and state agencies charged with protecting workers’ health and safety — and therefore not to utilize them. While...

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  • Report: Step up fight vs. AIDS among Latinos

    Report: Step up fight vs. AIDS among Latinos

    December 14, 2007

    CHICAGO — Last October the Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness, a coalition of health-related groups here, released a report titled “A Call To Action: Regarding HIV/AIDS Among Illinois’ Latino Communities” that investigated the community’s current...

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  • Blue Diamond Growers guilty, panel says

    Blue Diamond Growers guilty, panel says

    December 14, 2007

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As over 200 union and community supporters gathered at a Nov. 18 town hall forum on the labor situation at Blue Diamond Growers, a panel of elected officials and community representatives found the...

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS: Dec. 15

    NATIONAL CLIPS: Dec. 15

    December 14, 2007 By Denise Winebrenner Edwards

    COLUMBIA, S.C.: Obama, Winfrey draw thousands into politics PITTSBURGH: Abandon torture, say 49 retired military officers

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