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Nurses take to streets for union, patient rights
July 14, 2006Bush labor board poised to deny union rights to millions of workersOAKLAND, Calif. — More than 700 nurses and their supporters gathered in downtown Oakland July 11 to protest a forthcoming National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...
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Bush retreat fails to silence demand: Close Guantanamo!
July 13, 2006WASHINGTON — Fighters for justice and peace greeted a Pentagon memo asserting that 1,000 or more detainees at secret U.S. military prisons around the world are protected by the Geneva Conventions. They called for the closing...
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Mumbai Blasts: Foil Heinous Aim of Terrorists
July 13, 2006The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement: The series of bomb blasts on the suburban railways in Mumbai is a vicious terrorist attack. The death toll has touched...
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Rulings in favor of American Indians called biased
July 13, 2006Government gets judge removed from federal trust fund case. WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth was removed Tuesday from a 10-year-old lawsuit in which thousands of American Indians claim the government mismanaged billions of...
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Busted for wearing a peace T-shirt; has this country gone completely insane?
July 12, 2006Friday afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center on Chicago’s south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said, “Okay, you’ve had your 15 minutes,...
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