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  • International notes

    International notes

    August 2, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

    Palestine: Child malnutrition rises/Korean peninsula: new talks urged/Brazil: ICFTU protests killing of unionist/Germany: Workers strike Wal-Mart/Australia: Uproar grows over child detentions

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  • Far right targets McKinney

    Far right targets McKinney

    August 2, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    Five-term Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) faces a tough primary challenge, spearheaded by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Both have targeted McKinney for her refusal to join...

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  • Main St. goes to Wall St.

    Main St. goes to Wall St.

    August 2, 2002

    NEW YORK – Workers chanting, “Who’s city? Our city!” rallied here outside the New York Stock Exchange with laid-off workers from WorldCom, Enron and Arthur Andersen to tell Corporate America, “No more business as usual!” AFL-CIO...

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  • Globalizing labor against Coca-Cola

    Globalizing labor against Coca-Cola

    August 1, 2002

    I first met Luis Adolfo Cardona in Bogota, Colombia. He was clearly traumatized. He told my Witness for Peace labor delegation that on December 5, 1996, he’d witnessed the murder of Isidro Segundo Gil inside a...

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  • World labor organization condemns Israeli genocide

    World labor organization condemns Israeli genocide

    August 1, 2002

    In a statement released from its headquarters in Prague, The Czech Republic, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) condemned the Israeli rocket attack on Gaza City on July 22 that killed 15 Palestinian civilians, including...

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