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  • Immigrant workers face peril on the job

    Immigrant workers face peril on the job

    May 4, 2007

    Workers Correspondence“Immigrant Workers in Peril: Finding Solutions to the Health & Safety Crisis” brought some 200 labor and immigrant rights activists to the Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, & Policy Studies, City University of New York...

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  • Ohio labor runs for office

    Ohio labor runs for office

    May 4, 2007

    LORAIN, Ohio — One Central Labor Federation in northern Ohio has really taken the national AFL-CIO resolutions on political action to heart, at least the part that calls on union members to run for office. Four...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    May 4, 2007

    Nigeria: Losing candidates fight on Foreign observers and losing candidates have condemned as fraudulent Nigeria’s April 21 presidential elections that gave 24.6 million votes and victory to Musa Yar’Ada, outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo’s chosen successor. Muhammadu...

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  • Think tank targets Latin Americas leftward drift

    Think tank targets Latin Americas leftward drift

    May 4, 2007

    MEXICO CITY — With the help of right-wing parties and former elected officials in Latin America, the Madrid-based Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (FAES), led by former Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar, is attempting to...

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  • Hearing shows Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony

    Hearing shows Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony

    May 4, 2007

    One thing was certain after an April 27 congressional hearing on the status of Puerto Rico — the majority of those who testified agreed that Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony. The public hearing, held before...

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