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March 23, 2007NEW YORK: March for patient careFighting off driving rain, thousands of health care workers from around the state jammed the streets surrounding Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s Manhattan office March 15 to protest proposed cuts of $1 billion...
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Hundreds rally for jailed New Bedford workers
March 23, 2007NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Hundreds of people from Massachusetts and Rhode Island rallied here March 17 in support of 361 undocumented workers who were arrested in a government raid earlier this month at a New Bedford...
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Union: Sago miners did not have to die
March 23, 2007Standing with the West Virginia congressional delegation and before the family of deceased Sago miner Jim Bennett, United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts and Secretary Treasurer Daniel Kane charged, “This tragedy was preventable and should have...
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Chicago officials urge end to raids, deportations
March 23, 2007CHICAGO — By a 45-0 vote, Mayor Richard M. Daley and the City Council approved a resolution March 13 calling on President Bush to issue a moratorium immediately on all immigration raids and deportations not related...
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Behind the firings: GOP assault on one person, one vote
March 23, 2007ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Behind all the furor around U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, one of eight federal prosecutors who were fired by the Bush administration, was an effort by the Republican Party to suppress massive voter registration...
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