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Good news for Cuba the Chinese are coming!
January 21, 2005Two socialist nations intent upon expanding their productive capacities recently reached agreements for expanding trade relationships and cooperation over a range of mutually beneficial endeavors. Cuba is seeking alternatives to dependency on the capitalist global economy...
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On King holiday weekend: Northern California labor raises the ante
January 21, 2005SAN FRANCISCO — As their latest contract extension ended last week, hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area grocery workers gathered for a press conference outside the Oakland hotel where their union, the UFCW, is in tense...
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New Yorkers mobilize against Wal-Mart
January 21, 2005NEW YORK — The people of this city have plunged into the growing international fight against Wal-Mart’s unfair business practices by forming the “Wal-Mart Free NYC Coalition.” This comes in response to the department store chain’s...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
January 21, 2005This week’s clips highlight just a few of the people’s celebrations and struggles honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It took 15 years to establish the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. After Dr. King was...
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Soldier explains refusal to return to insane Iraq war
January 21, 2005HINESVILLE, Georgia (AP) — A young girl clutching her arm blackened by burns, dogs feeding off bodies in mass graves — the images still haunt Sgt. Kevin Benderman 15 months after he came home from Iraq....
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