Sept 18, 2004

$200 billion robbed from jobs, kids, health care, security

Campaigning in Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 14, Democrat John Kerry articulated the hope and the anger that workers and their families are feeling.

“George W. Bush keeps saying that things are getting better even when we all know that is just not true,” Kerry told a cheering crowd.

Vigils across the U.S. grieved the human cost of the Iraq war last week. At the same time, Marine generals and Iraq veterans teamed up with coal miners in a new initiative to bring an antiwar, anti-Bush message to key swing states. click here for Spanish text

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SAN FRANCISCO — Amid growing nationwide concerns about assuring the integrity of the vote in November, developments in California are highlighting vote integrity issues in the state.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kopf, ruling in Carhart v. Ashcroft, joined two other judges in finding that the so-called “Partial Birth Abortion Ban,” passed by Congress and signed into law by George W. Bush in 2003, is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced.

News Analysis

These days, with Bush in the White House and Congress locked down under Republican control, a legislative victory for workers is rare.

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3 facts on rising health care costs under Bush

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — “We’re out here for the patients,” said Mary James, a medical-surgical nurse at Mount Clemens General Hospital. “We can’t give them proper care. Money is not an issue — just give us more help,” she said.

ST. LOUIS: GOP kills assault weapons ban / JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ky.: Education workers vow to strike for health care / BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Female inmates strip searched / WASHINGTON: Gay Republicans withhold endorsement

News Analysis

On Aug. 29, a half million people marched in New York City at the opening of the Republican National Convention to say “No to the Bush agenda!”