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Story of a massacre
March 11, 2008Colombian troops attacked inside Ecuador on March 1, destroying a camp occupied by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Ecuadorian soldiers later found 23 bodies, including those of five Mexican young people visiting the site....
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Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe
March 11, 2008Greenhouse gases can be both a curse and a blessing. Too little in the atmosphere leads to the cooling of the earth, too much to its heating up. If the atmosphere were free of greenhouse gases,...
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Labor leaders call for action on climate change, green jobs
March 10, 2008SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The myth that labor is some type of dinosaur wedded to an extinct rust-belt economy was shattered here March 5 when the AFL-CIO executive council unanimously passed a resolution urging greening of...
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Unions tackle housing and foreclosure crisis
March 10, 2008SAN DIEGO, Calif. – “The seeds of this crisis were sown long ago and are symptoms of a low-wage economic strategy where workers are given the power to spend and borrow instead of an increase in...
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Million member mobilization launched to achieve bargaining rights for workers
March 9, 2008SAN DIEGO – Leaders of 56 national unions agreed here March 4, at an AFL-CIO executive council meeting, to collect written pledges from 10 percent of the federation’s members, one million workers, demanding an overhaul of...
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