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This Week In Labor
June 22, 2007LGBT unionists fighting on several fronts Pride at Work, an AFL-CIO affiliate, is a group of labor union activists who seek full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers in their workplaces and their...
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Nations first Green Jobs Corps poised for launch
June 22, 2007OAKLAND, Calif. — With City Council approval of $250,000 in seed money expected this week, Oakland is poised to launch the nation’s first Green Jobs Corps program to train young people with limited job prospects for...
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Agent Orange victims have day in court
June 22, 2007NEW YORK — In 1964 Nguyen Thi Hong, then a young woman of 17, joined the struggle against the U.S. occupation of her country, Vietnam. She knew that she might lose her life. But she had...
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WOLRD NOTES
June 22, 2007Brazil: Landless workers weigh in on biofuels The Fifth Congress of Brazil’s Rural Workers Without Land, the MST, ended June 14 with a march through Brasilia protesting transnational land grabs and mining privatization. President Luiz Inacio...
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N. Korea to shut reactor, rejects missile defense
June 22, 2007North Korea announced June 16 that it plans to shut down and seal its Yongbyon nuclear facilities in accordance with an agreement reached at the six-party talks aimed at addressing the Korean nuclear issue. At the...
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