News
100,000 strikers force SBC to pick up phone
May 28, 2004CHICAGO – Phone giant SBC Communications got the message when 100,000 workers in 13 states put down their headsets and tool belts to hit the streets, transmitting their own powerful message. After a four-day strike, May...
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Letters
May 21, 2004India’s election results Congratulations to Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Party in their electoral victory over Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his conservative Bharatiya Janata Party. Vajpayee and the BJP should be lauded for their unwillingness to...
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Editorials
May 21, 2004Defending the gains of Brown v. Board of Ed The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling May 17, 1954, striking down Plessy v. Ferguson, the “separate but equal” doctrine that...
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Farm workers march for justice
May 21, 2004ALBANY, N.Y. – A crowd of about 300 people with bright red shirts proclaiming “Farmworkers Deserve Justice” gathered on the west side of the State Capitol building here May 11 to celebrate the arrival of a...
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International notes
May 21, 2004Haiti: Marines arrest woman leader on Mother’s Day U.S. Marines invaded the home of renowned entertainer and community leader Annette Auguste after midnight May 9, arresting and detaining everyone present including four great-grandchildren, TransAfrica said, citing...
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