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  • IATSE members project a better image in NYC

    IATSE members project a better image in NYC

    June 17, 2005

    NEW YORK — Union projectionists held an informational picket in front of the invitation-only gala at the new Independent Film Channel (IFC) theater here June 9, after management broke off talks with their union and hired...

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  • GM cuts 25,000: Bad news for whole working class

    GM cuts 25,000: Bad news for whole working class

    June 17, 2005

    The action by General Motors in cutting 25,000 jobs — 22 percent of its U.S. workforce — spells big trouble for the U.S. working class.

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  • New Mexico AFL-CIO: Call for labor unity, bring the troops home

    New Mexico AFL-CIO: Call for labor unity, bring the troops home

    June 17, 2005

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The biennial convention of the New Mexico Federation of Labor met here June 10-11. The 163 delegates began their full agenda with a greeting by Executive Director Daniel Rivera. Next followed a memorial...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    June 17, 2005

    Australia: Protest U.S.-Australian military exercise Peace, anti-nuclear, environment and anti-military campaigners from around Australia gathered June 10-12 for a Peace Convergence near the site of many of the exercises in joint U.S.-Australian military exercises involving 30,000...

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  • OAS stands up to U.S., supports Venezuela

    OAS stands up to U.S., supports Venezuela

    June 17, 2005

    News Analysis “Madam Secretary, democracy cannot be imposed,” said Celso Amorim, Brazil’s foreign minister, in reply to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). “Latin...

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