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ERIE, Pa.: GE workers demand fair contract CHICAGO: Skyrocketing gas prices ignites drivers LORAIN, Ohio: Steelworkers protest illegal searches SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Voters could cast ballot on Iraq withdrawal
LETTERS
Don’t agree On Israel Rule of law Stop the hate Who is plotting? Kudos from MySpace
EDITORIAL: Cold War, reloaded
The Bush administration’s planned anti-missile complex in eastern Europe and its joint development of an anti-missile system with Japan are raising the specter of a new Cold War with far-reaching consequences for global political stability.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Thousands celebrate at Juneteenth festival SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Iraq war veteran walks for peace HAZELTON, Pa.: Anti-immigrant rally turns uglier COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.: Right-wing groups have falling out
Mercenaries cast dark shadows on U.S. democracy
When years ago Consolidation Coal, Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Steel created their own private armies, including Pinkertons, to keep the word “profits” always followed by the verb “skyrocketing,” and to keep workers under their control and the union out, no one dreamed that in the 21st century the privatization of the U.S. military would be on the political agenda.
LETTERS
Stop cuts to HIV/AIDS care Set the record straight Forget the meat Pete’s a prize
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WEST POINT, N.Y.: Hundreds protest Iraq war, Cheney AMHERST, Mass.: Former Bush aide booed at graduation OBERLIN, Ohio: City Council calls for impeachment BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Medicaid slashed on phony pretext
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There goes another plant End the travel ban Iranians bike for peace Take note
Labor/equality alliance lives
It is appropriate that Chicago, where the fight for the 8-hour day began so dramatically at Haymarket Square 120 years ago, is the site of this year’s Coalition of Black Trade Unionists convention.
Black unionists urge new social contract
CHICAGO — Dismantling of the corporate agenda is the big mission that the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) took on as it opened its 36th International Convention here May 23 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The convention runs through May 28.
