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  • Labor begins new push for Employee Free Choice Act

    Labor begins new push for Employee Free Choice Act

    April 29, 2005

    WASHINGTON (PAI) — Flanked by workers harassed or fired for trying to form unions, labor leaders and key lawmakers reintroduced the Employee Free Choice Act on April 19. The measure would legalize card-check recognition of unions,...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    April 29, 2005

    Canada: Set Wal-Mart protest for May 7 The Canadian Labor Congress has declared May 7 a day of protest outside Wal-Marts across Canada. The CLC said the actions by workers, students and community groups will raise...

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  • Ecuadorians oust president with mass protests

    Ecuadorians oust president with mass protests

    April 29, 2005

    News Analysis Ecuador, an impoverished country of 13 million people, is emerging as a major headache for the Bush administration. The people of this oil-rich nation just ousted their third president within seven years and show...

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  • New peace initiatives under way in Sudan

    New peace initiatives under way in Sudan

    April 29, 2005

    The gravity of the present Sudan crisis is perhaps best depicted by a 1994 Pulitzer-prize winning photo of a vulture intently awaiting the death of a famine-stricken, emaciated child seen crawling towards a distant UN food...

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  • Indian communists call for uprooting inequality

    Indian communists call for uprooting inequality

    April 29, 2005

    NEW DELHI — The 18th congress of Communist Party of India (Marxist) concluded April 11 with a rally of 100,000 people at Talkatora Stadium here. The extreme heat and sun couldn’t keep the overflow crowd away....

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