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There is a time to weep, a season to mourn. But there is not supposed to be a second time to do it again from the beginning. Last Tuesday night, about 100 alumni of grief filed into the Oakwood Baptist Church in Walker County, Ga. Clutching candles and tissues, they were forced to revisit the rituals of death. This time they prayed not for the souls of the dead but for the bodies--the 298 (and counting) men, women and at least one infant strewn about the landscape of a remote northwest Georgia crematory...
Twenty nurses, who all work for Oakwood, went on strike Sept. 13 after being denied a raise in payment and an improvement in employment conditions...
Green said SunRise, the company which owns Oakwood, refused the raise despite a large profit earned by the company last year. SunRise is the third-largest owner of nursing homes...
...leaders of the movement, Myrlene Lauriston, a former Oakwood employee, said, "I've been working there for three and a half years. The working conditions are bad and getting worse...
...seven people--includingWuchinich--were escorted out of Oakwood inhandcuffs by a dozen police officers and wereloaded into two police vehicles...