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Summer books and web sites
August 11, 2006For your summer reading and surfing pleasure:“An Unreasonable Woman” by Diane Wilson (published by Chelsea Green). A true autobiographical story that is as engaging as a good novel. Written by a fourth-generation commercial fisherwoman in Texas...
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Anti-capitalist classic
August 11, 2006Movie Review The Devil Wears Prada Directed by David Frankel PG-13, 119 min., 2006 As I left the theater, I thought, I hated this movie. Yet it was one of the best movies I have seen...
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The stroke of a corporate pen
August 11, 2006Has the stroke of a corporate media pen attempted to define “working class” away in your city? Once again, it has in mine. A June 23 article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press illustrates the point...
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Union split: sliced bread vs. the box
August 11, 2006For the past year there has been a widening split within the ranks of American organized labor, and this split risks hardening as the new Change to Win (CTW) coalition increasingly takes on the complexion of...
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LETTERS
August 11, 2006Minimum wage & seniors Has anyone taken a poll of all the seniors between the ages of 55-62 that are being exploited with this minimum wage law? I am approaching 60 and am being discriminated against...
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