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WORLD NOTES
December 15, 2006India: Dalits rally for rights Indian people belonging to the Dalit caste, known as “untouchables,” assembled Dec. 6 in Mumbai for a demonstration marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Dalit...
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Gaza journalist spotlights crimes of Israeli occupation
December 15, 2006NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — “You can get a phone call with a recorded message in a broken Arabic language … ‘Evacuate your house, we are coming to destroy it,’” said Mohammed Omer. Omer, a 22-year-old journalist...
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Lisbon meeting assesses victories, dangers
December 15, 2006Communist parties discuss experiences, prospectsLISBON, Portugal — Joy over a string of election victories in Latin America and the U.S. was mixed with deep concern over the bloodletting in the Middle East when representatives of 64...
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Labor against war meets in Cleveland
December 15, 2006CLEVELAND — “Just look at how far we’ve come in just three years,” remarked Gene Bruskin, co-convener of U.S. Labor Against the War, to hundreds of union representatives at the opening of the group’s annual conference...
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James and Esther Jackson: shapers of history
December 15, 2006The symposium “James and Esther Jackson, the American Left and the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement” at the Tamiment Library of New York University on Oct. 28 was an event of singular enlightenment and...
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