News and Views
9/14/04- 2005 CWA/IBEW/AT$T Academic Awards Program
The attached is the 2005 application that contains information regarding the program and the application process. Download in PDF format....
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9/10/04- How Many Deaths Will It Take? By: Bob Herbert
"How many thousands more more will have to die before we acknowledge that President Bush's obsession with Iraq and Saddam Hussein has been a catastrophe for the United States? Down...
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9/09/04- Special Treatment For Bush in Texas National Guard!
"Documents obtained by the "60 Minutes" program at CBS News from the personal files of the late Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, Mr. Bush's squadron commander in Texas, suggest that Lieu...
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9/08/04- Bush, Missing In Action!
"President Bush claims that in the fall of 1972, he fulfilled his Air National Guard duties at a base in Alabama. But Bob Mintz was there-and he is sure Mr. Bush wasn't." Download ...
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9/08/04- Bush Did Not Meet His Military Obligation!
"He didn't meet the commitments, or face the punishment, the records show." Download complete article from the Boston Globe in PDF format....
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9/07/04- ONE THOUSAND AND ONE! By: William Rivers Pitt
"At some point, you simply run out of words. Let us instead have a moment of silence for those 1,001 soldiers, and all the civilians who have joined them in the Iraqi dust." Downlo...
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9/06/04- The State of Working America 2004/2005!
Recovery has yet to arrive for working families. Continuing weakness in the labor market leads to a drop in real wages, decline in job quality and unbalanced growth. Download Press...
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9/05/04- 1,100 U.S. Troops Injured in Iraq During August!
About 1,100 U.S. soldiers and marines were wounded in Iraq during August, by far the highest combat injury toll for any month since the war began. Download complete article in PDF ...
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9/04/04- Haymarket Memorial Dedication Ceremony!
A dedication ceremony will take place on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 11:30 AM at the corner of Randolph and DesPlaines Avenue in Chicago. Download entire article from the CFL we...
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8/27/04- "Mission Not Accomplished in Iraq!"
"How long will America continue to pay the price in blood and treasure of this President's war? How long must the best of our nation's military men and women be taken from their ho...
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