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The Ghost Shirts |
by Mike Davis
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25 Aug 2004
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The Bush administration, not surprisingly, rejected the AFL-CIO appeal to enforce the (non-binding) core covenants of the International Labor Organization; nor can labor expect much more solidarity from a Democratic Party that prides itself on NAFTA and the WTO. Certainly, John Edwards may strike some heroic poses outside shuttered textile plants in his home state of North Carolina, but that doesn't mean, to quote an absurd campaign slogan, "help is on the way." The dominant Party line, as argued on the op-ed page of the New York Times recently by William Gould IV (former President Clinton's chairman of the National Labor Relations Board), is instead "keep labor standards out of trade agreements." |
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Organizing Six Million Nader/Camejo Supporters |
by Yoshie Furuhashi
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25 Aug 2004
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For leftists, an electoral campaign like Nader/Camejo 2004 is a means, not an end in itself. Use the campaign as an occasion that allows us to go out and discover our allies who have not met us -- and one another -- yet.
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Made in Iraq: The New Antiwar Veteran |
by Robert J. Lifton
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25 Aug 2004
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This kind of alternative is by no means new -- it was powerfully expressed by writers surviving World War I and goes back as far as Homer.
Iraq veterans are beginning to express similar sentiments. In Boston they sounded not unlike their Vietnam predecessors. They emphasized the large-scale killing of Iraqi civilians by American firepower, along with their own widespread confusion. "We were lost. We had no idea what we were doing," was the way one put it. |
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Hard Hitting Petition Rocks Foundation of Evangelical “Family Values” |
by Richard Schultz
cosmic1lawyer (nospam) yahoo.com (verified) |
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25 Aug 2004
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Petition to U.S. Congress Eliminates Religious Institutions from Tax Exempt
Status - All Religious Texts Promoting Criminal Activity Must be Purged From
Public Worship Handbooks. |
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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : Health : Labor : Political-Economy |
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Supervalu and Safe Working Conditions: Mutually Exclusive? |
by ML
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24 Aug 2004
Modified: 09:51:36 PM |
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Supervalu, the nation's largest independent wholesale grocery supplier, has made OSHA's list of the 13,000 worksites with the highest rates of injury to workers -- thirteen times. Included on the list is Supervalu's local distribution center on North Lincoln Avenue. |
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