Poisons at Cintas laundry
Commentary NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Workers at the Cintas plant in Branford, Conn., and across the country are taking their lead from co-workers in Long Island, N.Y., who are standing up for their health and safety rights.
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ST. LOUIS: Coalition forms to rescue health care / BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Officials protest block grant, housing cuts / TOMBSTONE, Ariz.: Vigilantes threaten undocumented workers / SAN FRANCISCO: Environmental groups sue Bush to save forests
John Negropontes bloody baggage
John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, has been nominated by President Bush to head the new super-spy agency set up by last year’s intelligence reform legislation. Negroponte’s baggage contains a shocking amount of dirt and blood.
Florida minimum wage under attack
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Backers of Florida’s new higher minimum wage have criticized a bill that deals with the increase, saying it would water down the measure by creating loopholes for employers.
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ST. PAUL, Minn.: Young workers say ‘Hands off Social Security’ / RICHMOND, Va.: State strengthens strip mining rules / WASHINGTON: Clergy protest attack on environment / NEW YORK: Civil rights lawyer convicted
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MIAMI: Protests in the land of Jeb Bush / APPALACHIA, Va.: Miners, neighbors demand justice for child’s death / WASHINGTON: Torture architect Gonzales confirmed as U.S. attorney general
Pablo Neruda: One poet, many lessons
OPINION “As the first bullets ripped into the guitars of Spain, when blood instead of music gushed out of them, my poetry stopped dead like a ghost in the streets of human anguish and a rush of roots and blood surged up through it. From then on, my road meets everyman’s road. And suddenly I see that from the south of solitude I have moved north, which is the people, the people whose sword, whose handkerchief my humble poetry wants to be, to dry the sweat of its vast sorrows and give it a weapon in its struggle.” — Pablo Neruda, “Memoirs”
