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October 1, 2004U.S. troops home now! Despite last week’s sunny forecast by President Bush and Iyad Allawi, the U.S.-installed ruler of Iraq, about how swimmingly things are going over there, the quagmire is rapidly deepening. U.S. troops and...
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The battle for Congress heats up
October 1, 2004“I have never considered myself a partisan person, but the Republican Party left me behind, so I had no choice but to leave the Republican Party behind,” Steven Brozak told delegates to the Democratic Convention this...
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LABOR UPDATE
October 1, 2004Vermont Labor: Bring ’em home The Vermont State Labor Council called on Gov. James Douglas to demand that all Vermont National Guard and Reserves be discharged from duty in Iraq and immediately return to the state....
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Nova Scotia OKs same-sex marriage
October 1, 2004VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Nova Scotia became the sixth Canadian province to sanction same-sex marriages Sept. 24 when Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Heather Robertson upheld the Ontario marriage of a lesbian couple living in Nova...
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Hotel workers check out in SF
October 1, 2004San Francisco hotel workers walked out Sept. 29 as part of a three-city struggle to force giant hotel chains to agree to a common contract expiration date. The union has announced the 1,200-member strike will last...
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