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In tiny RI, jewelry workers fight mighty battle
March 26, 2009EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Jobs with Justice has launched a national campaign for justice for 280 workers here who found their workplace padlocked with no warning two months ago.
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UN votes to continue Afghan aid mission
March 26, 2009Original source: The UN security council has voted unanimously to extend a mission in Afghanistan for a year to lead international civilian efforts to provide aid, promote reconstruction, combat corruption and help improve civilian-military co-operation. The...
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Solitary confinement in US prisons making thousands psychotic
March 26, 2009The United States today is housing tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement, a form of numbing mental torture that drives about one-third of them psychotic, induces irrational anger in 90 percent, and ups...
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The Black president Colombia forgot
March 26, 2009At the end of the 19th century, Jose Nieto Gil was president of Colombia. And yet, you won't find him in a single history book. Why? Presumably because he was black.
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Fight for Employee Free Choice continues despite Specters flip
March 25, 2009Even though he was a sponsor of the original Employee Free Choice Act in 2003, supported the bill again in 2005 and voted against a Republican filibuster of it in 2007, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced...
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