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  • Houston school workers demand fair pay

    Houston school workers demand fair pay

    May 18, 2007

    HOUSTON — On May 10 at least 30 labor supporters gathered outside the School District’s administration building here to support the teachers union’s demand for higher salaries for education workers. Local 6315 of the American Federation...

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  • WORLD NOTES

    WORLD NOTES

    May 18, 2007

    Israel: Plans for East Jerusalem assailed Israeli authorities announced plans May 10 to build 20,000 homes in three neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Annexed by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War, the area is not legally...

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  • Estonian govt desecrates anti-fascist history

    Estonian govt desecrates anti-fascist history

    May 18, 2007

    On April 27, the Estonian government removed a monument honoring the 270,000 Red Army soldiers who gave their lives in the fight against Nazism in Estonia from a central square in Tallinn, the country’s capital, and...

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  • Cuba, the European Union and Spain

    Cuba, the European Union and Spain

    May 18, 2007

    As part of Washington’s decades-long project to isolate the Cuban revolution, Caleb McCarry recently undertook an eight-nation European tour. It came after a visit to Cuba in early April by Spain’s foreign minister to sign agreements...

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  • Killings of Afghan civilians denounced

    Killings of Afghan civilians denounced

    May 18, 2007

    In the wake of repeated incidents in which over 130 Afghan civilians have been killed this year during U.S. and NATO military operations, opposition to the Western troop presence is escalating in Afghanistan, and concern is...

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