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  • Guild workers demand fair deal from Plain Dealer

    Guild workers demand fair deal from Plain Dealer

    November 7, 2008

    CLEVELAND – Over 100 members of the Newspaper Guild Local 1 held a brief rally and picketed the Plain Dealer Oct. 30 to protest an anti-union buyout offer in an ongoing downsizing of the city’s only...

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  • Voting rights advocates: reform needed

    Voting rights advocates: reform needed

    November 7, 2008

    Voting rights organizations had warned for months that thousands of voters across the country mighbe disenfranchised by problems related to anticipated high turnout or actions that lessened participation of specific groups of voters. While they focused...

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  • Mining for minerals fuels Congo conflict

    Mining for minerals fuels Congo conflict

    November 7, 2008

    LONDON (AP) – The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in a ceaseless war for some 10 years with a mind-numbing toll: 5.5 million dead and 300,000 women raped. Some say the most recent conflict in...

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  • The other Colombia stirs

    The other Colombia stirs

    November 7, 2008

    “What was new was the breadth, extent, and depth of the protest, and above all the confluence of actors.” For analyst Raul Zibechi, the “other Colombia” was manifest in a wave of indigenous and workers’ protests...

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  • Economy fix cant wait until 1.20.09

    Economy fix cant wait until 1.20.09

    November 7, 2008

    $700 billion bailout ‘like using a can of Red Bull and a candy bar’ As the economy continues crashing and as Congress readies for a special post-election Nov. 17 session at which it could pass a...

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