July

Message from Missouri: 'This is our country! Let's take it back!'

ST. LOUIS – Voters here in the Show Me State want George W. Bush to show them one good reason to give him four more years in the White House in the Nov. 2 election. Missouri labor and its allies have seen enough already and are working hard to 'show Bush the door in 2004.'

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The People's Dreams vs. Wal-Mart Schemes

During the last couple years we’ve been hearing a lot about a 'global clash of civilizations.' We have our own clash of civilizations going on, right here in the United States. Essentially, civilization is the sum total of the expressed dreams of a people. It is their version – and vision – of what life is supposed to be. But in the United States, only one very small group is empowered to dream its dreams – to build its version of civilization.

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Wal-Mart and the Bush/Cheney Campaign Working from Same Play Book

Is it any wonder then that the Bush administration has specifically endorsed Wal-Mart as a credit to American capitalism? We cannot vote Wal-Mart out of office this November, but we can change the culture in which Wal-Mart operates by voting out George Bush. Don’t be fooled by soothing music and pictures of smiling workers.

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The General Strike Can Teach Unions How to Grow

San Francisco, CA - Archie Brown was first a ship scaler, and then a longshoreman - a dockworker all his life. He was there 70 years ago, when thousands of maritime workers closed west coast ports from San Diego to Canada. He saw the tanks and guns deployed by shipowners to fence off the docks at the height of the strike. And he remembered what happened next, when police shot into crowds of strikers, killing two union activists, as they sought to break picketlines and escort struck cargo off the piers.

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