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LETTERS: Sept. 1
August 31, 2007Victory for students, peace At last, after two years, a victory for Chapter 119 Veterans for Peace (Tampa Bay, Fla.). Vets and their friends will be “permitted” to sit at a table inside Pinellas County schools...
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EDITORIAL: Gonzales out, whats next?
August 31, 2007As most Americans breathed a sigh of relief over the departure of Attorney General Alberto “torture is OK” Gonzales, President Bush told reporters he had “reluctantly” accepted Gonzales’ resignation. “It’s sad that we live in a...
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EDITORIAL: How wealth is created
August 31, 2007“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the...
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Autoworkers and national health care
August 31, 2007Back in the 1950s, Charles Wilson, then GM’s president, declared, “What’s good for General Motors is good for America.” Reeking with more arrogance than corporate benevolence, the quote certainly doesn’t apply anymore, if it ever did....
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N.Y. transit union spurs fight for safety
August 31, 2007NEW YORK — In June the New York Legislature passed a measure sponsored by the Transport Workers Union designed to enhance the safety of union members and all workers who toil in proximity to the moving...
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