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NY Progressive Caucus demands: Tax the rich
June 23, 2010NEW YORK - As Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget axe chops at public workers and services, a large section of the City Council wants another solution: tax the rich.
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World labor leaders: Reject dictatorship of markets
June 23, 2010VANCOUVER, Canada - World labor leaders gathered here in the second congress of the International Trade Union Confederation are of one mind in rejecting the "Washington consensus."
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Carolina NAACP head calls for civil disobedience to protest “resegregation”
June 23, 2010RALEIGH, N.C. - William Barber II, state NAACP chairman, this week called for mass civil disobedience July 20 to protest moves to "resegregate" public education in Wake County.
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Death row inmate Troy Davis hearing set for Wednesday
June 23, 2010Troy Davis, an African American inmate held on Georgia's death row for nearly two decades, will have chance to win his freedom Wednesday.
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Poor People’s World Cup stresses South Africa’s anti-poverty fight
June 23, 2010The Poor People's World Cup in Cape Town, organized by the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, aims to highlight the province's struggle against poverty and homelessness.
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