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Social Security: keep your eyes on the prize
June 8, 2007Don’t blink your eyes; keep your eyes on the prize. If you don’t, then you’re sure to lose it. Wasn’t it only a couple of years ago that Wall Street and its Bush administration waged a...
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This Week in Labor
June 8, 2007A voice for nonunion workers Working America — the AFL-CIO’s influential grassroots organization for people who don’t have a union — is sending an army of activists to the streets this summer to strengthen the voice...
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WORLD NOTES
June 8, 2007Portugal: General strike sends a message The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers unleashed a general strike against the Social Democratic government of Jose Socrates on May 30. With 70-90 percent of workers participating, the strike paralyzed...
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Lebanon: 30,000 civilians caught in crossfire
June 8, 2007BEIRUT (IPS) — Palestinians inside Lebanon have been in a quandary as to how to assist the more than 30,000 residents of the densely populated Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, where thousands are still...
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Rice pressures Spain on Cuba
June 8, 2007Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice condemned Spain’s recent opening to Cuba as she talked with reporters accompanying her May 29 to Germany, Austria and Spain for talks. “I don’t see how [democracy] is advanced by simply...
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