The call for a shorter workweek with no cut in pay arises periodically in the working class, their trade unions and among labor and progressive economists. What generally gives rise to those calls is sharp increases in joblessness underscored by long-term sustained unemployment for millions of workers. 
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April 26, 2003
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Opinion
“The United States has always protested against the doctrine of international law which permits the subjugation of the weak by the strong.
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Opinion
Thousands of immigrants are planning a May Day mobilization in Washington, D.C., with a clear message: Rights for immigrant workers now! The national day of action on this international workers’ day is being organized by the National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty for Immigrants, a grassroots coalition of labor, community, and faith-based organizations with a large immigrant and undocumented immigrant base, established in 1999. Our leadership is 100 percent immigrant and elected by our base.
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Farmers and ranchers have not enjoyed the same economic growth and prosperity that many other sectors of American society have experienced in the last decade.
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Have they no decency? The United States Senate on April 11 resembled a circus sideshow, practicing the old shell game of now you see it, now you don’t.
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Dos proyectos de ley en Tejas, HB 1845, introducida por el representante Todd Smith, y SB 944, del senador Steve Ogden, proponen que los inmigrantes tengan licencias de conducir que los identifiquen como no ciudadanos.
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Recently there has been a spate of hateful responses to people who expressed opposition to the unjust war in Iraq. Opposition has been equated to not supporting our troops in the field. This is absolutely false.
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“Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war;”
– Julius Caesar (III.i)
It would be easy to take this quote at face value. But, Will Shakespeare had much more in mind. He tells us so in Henry V. We find in the prologue, Henry, the drunken “waster” who becomes king, that “at his heels, leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire crouch for employment” and “busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.”
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Las falsas justificaciones para esta guerra empezaron mucho antes de que la ONU considerara la Resolución 1441. Aun los que apoyan a Bush en esta guerra de ataque preventivo admiten que no hay evidencia alguna de una relación entre Saddam Hussein y los terroristas de al-Qaeda que atacaron las Torres Gemelas el 11 de septiembre.
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Opinion
This is the centennial year of the publication of Dr. W.E.B. DuBois’ classic The Souls of Black Folk, first published April 18, 1903. The centennial takes place at a time when the Bush administration has come out openly against affirmative action and is simultaneously flouting immigrant rights, democratic rights, and the rights of working people overall.
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