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Progressive Caucus backs public health insurance plan
April 8, 2009While one of the AFL-CIO’s key health care reform principles—a public health insurance option—has been vigorously attacked by the private insurance industry, it received important backing last week from the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). The CPC...
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Cuba: ‘Its time to talk’ say US lawmakers
April 8, 2009HAVANA, Apr 7 (IPS) - Seven Democratic congresspersons from the U.S. concluded that it is possible to talk about any issue with Cuba and that 'it is time' to do so, at the end of a...
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Guantanamo medics guilty of inmate abuse
April 8, 2009Original source: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that medical professionals who monitored CIA interrogations at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay violated medical ethics by participating in torture. A confidential...
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Opinion: Arts Advocacy Day testimony from Linda Ronstadt
April 8, 2009Special to the Mercury News Editor's note: The following is the full testimony Linda Ronstadt is delivering today to a Congressional subcommittee as part of Arts Advocacy Day. Ronstadt, a Grammy-award winning singer, is artistic director...
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Battle Congress cant escape: Fight for employee free choice follows lawmakers home
April 8, 2009When people think about the fight for labor law reform that is front and center these days in organized labor’s push for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, they think of groups lobbying in the...
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