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LETTERS: Sept. 8
September 7, 2007Great Labor Day quote I was pleased to receive your Labor Day greetings (“How wealth is created,” editorial, PWW 9/1-7). The quote you started with is one of my absolute favorites, perhaps second only to Eugene...
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Western Sahara continues decolonization talks
September 7, 2007More than 50 years after the United Nations vowed to ensure the right to self-determination for every occupied territory, Western Sahara is still fighting for its independence. The current struggle began in early 1970s, when the...
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Public education is new freedom struggle
September 7, 2007A teacher’s viewpoint While large numbers of young people now start school in August, Labor Day weekend still marked the “official” end of summer vacation for hundreds of thousands of others. For too many of these...
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NATIONAL CLIPS: Sept. 8
September 7, 2007SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Voters have chance to speak on war SEATTLE: Going condo crazy DICKSON, Tenn.: Environmental racism on Senate stage DURHAM, N.C.: Woman named to lead top medical school
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2007 Labor Day roundup: A sampling of Labor Day events from around the country.
September 7, 2007Houston: Union members lined up their RVs and smokers and cooked up huge quantities of barbecue at the Harris County AFL-CIO’s Labor Day barbecue cook-off, a three-day bonanza of food and fun at the Pasadena Convention...
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