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The Spark Newspaper

We publish a newspaper every two weeks titled The Spark.

Issue no. 652 — March 5 - 19, 2001

Editorial

Editorial: "Return the surplus to those who paid it" –But that's not what Bush is doing!

Pages 2-3

Detroit water rates go up while the money floods out to business

Book review: The Great American Tax Dodge

Supreme Court upholds terrorism in upholding South Carolina's anti-abortion law

California: the decline of society's basic infrastructure

Giving to those who don't need it

Pages 4-5

Seattle vs. El Salvador, India, Turkey: Imperialism makes the odds of dying in an earthquake quite different

Haiti: The return of Aristide

South Africa: Trial begins over generic AIDS drugs

Turkey's economic crisis: Squeezing the working class to pay off the big banks

Pages 6-7

Ergonomic standards under attack – and they weren't much to begin with

Ford's flunkies

Ford continues on its merry, profit-making way as another worker loses his life in another "accident"

Chicago: Public defender refuses to represent half of appeals

L.A. Angels Flight crash: Safety takes a holiday

Movie Review: "Traffic"

 
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