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St. Louis mobilizes against home foreclosures
December 7, 2007ST. LOUIS — Housing activists, religious leaders and concerned homeowners launched a campaign in this city’s 18th Ward on Nov. 28 to stop predatory lenders and “fringe financial institutions” from taking advantage of low-income, working-class families...
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Calif. legislators respond to mortgage crisis
December 7, 2007OAKLAND, Calif. — As the mortgage foreclosure crisis tightened its grip on California homeowners and threatened to impact the state’s budget, legislative leaders in Sacramento last week announced proposals to address the current crisis and to...
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WORLD NOTES: Dec. 8
December 7, 2007Tanzania: ‘Helsinki Process’ deals with globalization Finland and Tanzania set up the “Helsinki Process on globalization and democracy” in 2003 to provide “a new kind of equal forum” for the North and South, according to Inter...
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Canadians in furor over torture of Afghans
December 7, 2007VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A recently released internal Canadian government document confirms that the government has known for some time that Afghanistan’s security forces, which it backs, are mistreating and torturing prisoners. The document has caused...
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Australia signs Kyoto pact on gas emissions
December 7, 2007As one of his very first official actions Dec. 3, Kevin Rudd, Australia’s newly sworn-in prime minister, signed the instrument of ratification for the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The ratification will come into force...
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