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Updated 10/1/2003; 11:40:22 AM

Thursday, September 25, 2003

Bowl Workers Clock Out in Protest. Where's Arturo? Berkeley Bowl Workers Stage Brief Walkout to Support (Another) Fired Worker [SF Indymedia]
3:36:40 PM    comment []

Levi to Shut N. American Plants, Cut Jobs (Reuters). Reuters - Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. said on Thursday it would close its remaining North American manufacturing and finishing plants, putting nearly 2,000 employees out of work. [Yahoo! News - Business]
3:36:27 PM    comment []

Housing Shines Amid Otherwise Mixed Data (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. housing sector continued to sizzle and the jobs market appeared to improve, but a drop in demand for costly factory goods left a reminder the economy is not yet back to full health, reports showed on Thursday.. [Yahoo! News - Business]
3:36:14 PM    comment []

U.S. Income Gap Widening, Study Says. The gap between rich and poor more than doubled from 1979 to 2000 and is the widest in 70 years, an analysis of data released on Wednesday shows. By Lynnley Browning. [New York Times: Business]
3:36:00 PM    comment []

Pay Deal for Actors in Ads. The Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and an advertising trade group reached a tentative pay agreement covering commercials. By Bloomberg News. [New York Times: Business]
3:35:46 PM    comment []

Immigrants' Rights Drive Starts. Eighteen buses carrying hundreds of immigrants are stopping in over 100 cities to promote immigrants' rights. By Steven Greenhouse. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
3:35:32 PM    comment []

Voices from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. The freedom riders ride again, fighting racism and working to improve the lives of immigrant workers. And just like the rides of the '60s, students play a huge role in the effort. [AlterNet]
3:35:16 PM    comment []

Factory Orders Drop As Home Sales Soar (AP). AP - America's factories saw orders for costly manufactured goods tumble in August while homes sales soared, showing two sides of the fragile economic recovery. [Yahoo! News - Business]
3:34:09 PM    comment []

Fields of Hunger: Lives of the Fresno Farmworkers [LA IMC Newswire]
11:45:21 AM    comment []

Canada Growth to Pick Up Through '04 -Central Bank (Reuters). Reuters - The Canadian economy, hit by a string of shocks this year, will see growth strengthen again by the end of the year and throughout 2004, Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Pierre Duguay said on Wednesday. [Yahoo! News - World]
11:45:07 AM    comment []

Shanghai Mayor Grapples With Changes (AP). AP - He rattles off statistics with practiced ease, packaging his ambitious development platform in impeccable Communist Party jargon. [Yahoo! News - World]
11:44:48 AM    comment []


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