Last Updated: Jun 26, 2006
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Issue no. 777
Editorial
Editorial: Iraq: With blood on their hands, the two parties blame each other
Pages 2-3
Using Hurricane Katrina as an excuse for yet another charter school “experiment”
Bosses, politicians and bureaucrats: Those who claim to speak for immigrant workers
The divisions inside the Republican Party over “immigration reform”
Pages 4-5
Castro’s “fortune,” according to Forbes
Immigration from Africa to Europe: The horror of hope
Thirty years ago – June 1976: Bloody riots in Soweto, South Africa
When the CIA covered up for ex-Nazis
Palestine: Olmert carries out the worst policy
Evidence of “terror plot” – one man’s word
Minimum wage proposal: An offer to provide poverty
Pages 6-7
60 years ago: Walter Reuther begins to gut the union
Page 8
Secrets and lies about GM’s “legacy costs”
Phony hearing
Jun 26, 2006
The governor of Maryland announced a hearing so anyone could tell him what they thought about the BGE (gas and electric) rate hike. Yet the hearing was held in Annapolis at 3 p.m. – which made it hard for people with jobs to get to.
Doesn’t seem like he really wanted to hear from working people, does it?