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  • Movement for peace grows in Connecticut

    Movement for peace grows in Connecticut

    March 16, 2007

    Even as U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman steps up his support for the Bush administration’s war on Iraq, the movement for peace grows in his home state. Connecticut residents, young and old, gathered in 24 old-fashioned town...

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  • TAKE ACTION: Tell your senator to pass EFCA

    TAKE ACTION: Tell your senator to pass EFCA

    March 16, 2007

    The AFL-CIO is mobilizing its unions to line up the 60 Senate votes needed to halt a planned Republican filibuster against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The EFCA, which requires companies to recognize a union...

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  • Notes from Guatemala and Colombia

    Notes from Guatemala and Colombia

    March 16, 2007

    On March 12 Guatemalan President Oscar Berger took Bush to the Mayan sacred site Iximche. Hundreds of indigenous people carried out a vigil for 24 hours in nearby Tecpan that a leader described as “an act...

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  • George War Bush in Brazil: persona non grata

    George War Bush in Brazil: persona non grata

    March 16, 2007 By Pedro Oliveira

    SÃO PAOLO, Brazil — President George W. (“War”) Bush visited Brazil and four other countries — Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico — during his Latin American tour last week.

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  • With 100 dead, action urged to curb house fires

    With 100 dead, action urged to curb house fires

    March 16, 2007

    Jim Harmes, president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, told the World he has been a firefighter for over 35 years, and “I don’t remember when there have been so many multiple-death house fires as...

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