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Hotel workers fight employer takeaways
September 17, 2004LOS ANGELES (PAI) — Beset by employers demanding givebacks, hotel workers in Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco took to the streets in August and September, culminating in arrests in the latter city on Labor Day....
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International notes
September 17, 2004Nigeria: Anti-union law passes Over the objections of the umbrella union organization, the Nigerian Labor Congress, and unions throughout the African continent, Nigeria’s senate Sept. 9 passed a blatantly anti-union labor law mandating jail for participants...
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U.S. gave cash to anti-Chavez groups
September 17, 2004Documents recently obtained from the U.S. Department of State under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by www.venezuelafoia.info demonstrate that more than $5 million annually during the past two years was given by the United States...
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Cubans mobilize to counter Ivans wrath
September 17, 2004Three days before Hurricane Ivan grazed Cuba, U.S. journalist Karen Wald heard from a Cuban friend: “Everything is crazy with Ivan coming. This is a war situation here. … People are really scared.” Cuba was still...
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Schoolchildren protest Israels apartheid wall
September 17, 2004A-RAM, West Bank — More than a thousand Palestinian schoolchildren, boys and girls from age 6 to 14, wearing their school uniforms and carrying books and supplies, demonstrated here on Sept. 13 in the shadows of...
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