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  • Zuma sworn in as president of South Africa

    Zuma sworn in as president of South Africa

    May 11, 2009

    Pretoria, May 9 (Prensa Latina) Jacob Zuma, the winner for the African National Congress in the polls of April 22, took the oath of office Saturday as the fourth South African president since apartheid. Under tight...

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  • BOOK REVIEW A Red Family

    BOOK REVIEW A Red Family

    May 10, 2009 By Ernesto Aguilar

    The 2002 death of former Communist Party activist and longtime civil rights/labor activist Junius Scales concluded one of America's most distinctive lives. Convicted of a felony in the 1950s solely for his party membership, Scales appealed...

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  • Markets rally with US banking audit

    Markets rally with US banking audit

    May 10, 2009

    Original source: World stock markets rose on Friday with the results of the US government's banking 'stress test.' US President Barack Obama ordered the audit of the degree of recapitalisation needed by the 19 biggest US...

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  • Netroots Nation Salon: The fight for Employee Free Choice, online and off

    Netroots Nation Salon: The fight for Employee Free Choice, online and off

    May 10, 2009 By Seth Michaels

    Online organizers and progressive activists from inside and outside the union movement met today at the AFL-CIO for a frank conversation about the state of the Employee Free Choice Act and how online activism can help...

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  • Orlando march highlights immigration trends

    Orlando march highlights immigration trends

    May 10, 2009

    ORLANDO FL - Over 100 immigrants, workers, and students gathered on lake Eola in downtown Orlando recently to call for changes in United States immigration policy. The focus of the march was to call for an...

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