[PWW-headlines] October 30,

October 30, People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo

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VOTE Nov. 2! Problems? Call ‘Election Protection’ 1-866-OUR-VOTE

by Wally Kaufman and Denise Winebrenner Edwards, 10/28/04

COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 1,000 union members marched on the offices of
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, Oct. 25, to demand that he
protect the rights of 700,000 newly registered Ohio voters threatened by
Republican vote suppression tactics in this crucial battleground state.

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VOTE Nov. 2! ‘We have numbers, momentum’

by Susan Webb, 10/28/04

“We have the numbers, we have the momentum,” said New Mexico labor leader
Danny Rivera. “It’s going to be about performance” — about who gets the
voters to the polls.

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>From COINTELPRO to the Patriot Act: The long battle for justice and civil
liberties

by Tim Wheeler, 10/28/04

COINTELPRO’s “aim was to neutralize the movement, to disrupt legal
activities. Dozens were murdered or assassinated. The
result was that effective movements for social change were disrupted and
in some cases destroyed.”

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S.F. hotel owners defy mayor’s ultimatum

by Marilyn Bechtel, 10/28/04

SAN FRANCISCO — The fat was in the fire Oct. 26 as operators of 14 large
downtown hotels defied San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s demand to end a
four-week lockout of their workers and accept a proposed 90-day
cooling-off period previously agreed by the union.

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Struggle continues to save trauma center

by Rosalio Muñoz, 10/28/04

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is steamrolling
towards the closure of the trauma center at the county’s Martin Luther
King Jr./Drew Medical Center.

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Philadelphia revs up to get out the vote

by Rosita Johnson, 10/28/04

PHILADELPHIA — More than 100,000 people filled the center of the city here
Oct. 25 to welcome Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and former
President Bill Clinton. Just two days earlier in the same city the Black
Radical Congress (BRC) hosted a forum to get out the vote on Election Day.

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