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A little health education for FOX and CBS
July 6, 2007FOX Broadcasting and CBS reached new lows of hypocrisy and pandering to the ultra-right on reproductive rights, sex and contraception when they recently refused to air ads for condoms. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has offered...
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Big cheers for Family and Medical Leave Act
July 6, 2007AFL-CIO blogger Mike Hall writes, “When the Department of Labor in December asked workers and employers to comment on their experiences with regulations that implement the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), many observers believed it...
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July 7 THIS WEEK IN LABOR
July 6, 2007Moldy food found at Farmer Joe’s; How about American Vulture?; Farm workers toil in extreme heat; Fast track dies; We’d deliver, but our bosses won’t let us
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July 7 WORLD NOTES
July 6, 2007Bolivia: Regional leaders form Bank of the South The “Solidarity Bank of the People of the South” was launched June 27-28 at the Summit of the Peoples in Paraguay and concurrently in Venezuela at the Summit...
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Puerto Rico remains a colony, panel says
July 6, 2007The colonial status of Puerto Rico is once again coming up for review by the United Nations General Assembly. The UN’s Special Decolonization Committee placed the issue on the larger body’s agenda by unanimously adopting a...
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