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Harken v. Costa Rica: U.S. companies employ blackmail in free trade with Central America
May 28, 2004When most people think of Costa Rica, they don’t imagine oil rigs stationed off the pristine beaches. Nor do they envision pit mines cutting into the cloud-forested mountains.
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Using facts to fight health disparities
May 28, 2004The struggle against racism in the U.S. health system continues even in these terrible times of the Bush administration and the right-wing controlled Congress.
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Workers sue Quebecor for bias
May 28, 2004OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (PAI) – Workers here at the Quebecor World, Inc., printing plant – one of the Quebecor plants the Graphic Communications International Union is trying to organize – filed a racial discrimination complaint against...
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Owners of gay bars say no to Coors again
May 28, 2004CHICAGO – Chicago’s three gay newspapers are carrying a March 19 open letter ad signed by almost two-dozen Chicago gay bar owners urging people not to buy Coors Company products. The signers charge that Coors family...
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Calif. education and health on chopping block
May 28, 2004Across California, students and those who depend on publicly-funded health care programs will be among the hardest hit if the draconian cuts in programs and services proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger survive in the final budget...
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