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Leaders urge no vote on Prop. 54

August 15, 2003

LOS ANGELES – Civil rights leaders and public officials announced their opposition to Proposition 54 at an Aug. 12 press conference on the steps of City Hall here. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn called Prop. 54...

Vets in same boat as injured workers

August 15, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Sick and injured war veterans and victims of industrial workplace accidents have a lot in common. Both are treated disgracefully.

The Office of Tax Propaganda

August 15, 2003 By Art Perlo

The honesty-impaired Bush administration does not limit its deception to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When it comes to taxes, the spin starts when they call their program the “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Act...

National Clips

August 15, 2003

ANNISTON, Ala.:‘Stop burning of chemical weapons’ Despite years of protests and court action by residents, the U.S. Army began burning chemical weapons along one of the most densely populated sections of the Atlanta to Birmingham corridor...

AFL-CIO 2004 election plans

August 15, 2003

CHICAGO – The City of Big Shoulders was an appropriate place for the mid-year AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting Aug. 5-6. Here organized labor, deliberately and with little fanfare, began the heavy lifting of coordinating and mobilizing...