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  • Treatment of Immigrant Workers Nationwide in Meatpacking Plants Violates Basic Worker Rights

    Treatment of Immigrant Workers Nationwide in Meatpacking Plants Violates Basic Worker Rights

    December 16, 2006

    Immigration Reform is key to Preventing Identity Theft and to End Family Separation Chicago—With recent raids in meatpacking plants in various states, United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 881 protests this treatment of workers...

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  • War at Christmas time

    War at Christmas time

    December 15, 2006

    The forked desert road leads to nowhere. Each crossroad, each corner of a dusty street Evokes not the sleepy town of Bethlehem, But the chaos found in Fullujah or In the gutted houses of Tikrit, Along...

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  • The post-abundance era

    The post-abundance era

    December 15, 2006

    Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. Although the “post-Cold-War era” has been the reigning expression, this label now...

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  • Fortresses of working-class power

    Fortresses of working-class power

    December 15, 2006

    A nightmare for progressives leading up to the Nov. 7 elections was that Maryland voters would go against the grain and elect Republican Michael Steele, an African American, to the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring...

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  • Making connections on terrorism

    Making connections on terrorism

    December 15, 2006

    Charged with possessing deadly weapons, Santiago Alvarez of Florida plea-bargained, dodged a potential 50-year sentence, and now goes to jail for four years. Alvarez, like some other right-wing Cuban Americans, has paid for, organized and carried...

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