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Iraqi trade unionists to tour U.S.
June 10, 2005Iraqi trade union leaders from three union organizations will tour the U.S. from June 10-26 under the sponsorship of U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), a group composed of state labor federations, central labor councils and...
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Giving to make a better world
June 10, 2005Mabel Belka was an unsung heroine. Her life was molded by the times she grew up in. And as she grew up she began to understand the forces of society — the oftentimes hidden hand of...
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Calls grow to close Gitmo jail, seek truth on Downing Street Memo
June 10, 2005In the wake of charges by Amnesty International that U.S. detention centers at Guantanamo and elsewhere constitute “the gulag of our times,” one of the Senate’s leading Democrats, Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), and former President Jimmy...
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1,400 at D.C. meet say Take Back America
June 10, 2005WASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters, chanting “Hands off my Social Security” and “Not wise to privatize,” marched to the White House in the rain June 3. The march came at the conclusion of a three-day “Take...
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Bolivian protests shake government
June 9, 2005LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Carlos Mesa offered to resign here June 6, seeking to quell weeks of anti-government protests that have paralyzed parts of the country. The offer came as tens of thousands of...
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