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  • 50,000 people attend German Communist Party media fair

    50,000 people attend German Communist Party media fair

    June 23, 2009

    DORTMUND, Germany -- The biannual press fair of Unzere Zeit [Our Time], the socialist weekly newspaper of the German Communist Party, was attended by 50,000 people over the weekend of June 19–21 in Revier Park near...

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  • State after state, budget crises loom

    State after state, budget crises loom

    June 23, 2009

    Hundreds of thousands nationwide are protesting against state budget shortfalls that could fall on the backs of working families including those at risk of losing badly needed human services at a time where jobs are scarce...

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  • Stonewall riots: The beginning of the LGBT movement

    Stonewall riots: The beginning of the LGBT movement

    June 23, 2009 By Dayo Adiatu

    This Sunday, June 28, will mark the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the event largely regarded as a catalyst for the LGBT movement for civil rights in the United States. At the time, there were...

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  • Death on the job in Texas

    Death on the job in Texas

    June 23, 2009

    Original source: Every 2½ days a construction worker dies on the job in Texas. On Tuesday, just days after three construction workers fell to their deaths in Austin, a group of workers gathered outside City Hall...

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  • A/H1N1 flu epidemic escalating in Middle East

    A/H1N1 flu epidemic escalating in Middle East

    June 23, 2009

    The influenza A/H1N1 epidemic swept over the Middle East region as infections continued to climb across the region and more countries previously immune to the flu saw their first confirmed cases. Oman's Health Ministry last Wednesday...

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