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  • NAFTA: good for who?

    NAFTA: good for who?

    January 24, 2003

    While celebrations were being held in Washington on the successes of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s first ten years by the business elites and the ex-presidents of Mexico, the United States and Canada who signed...

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  • Affirmative action march in Mich.

    Affirmative action march in Mich.

    January 24, 2003

    ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Despite freezing temperatures, hundreds of youth, students, community and union members marched here to defend affirmative action on Jan. 20 in honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Ann Arbor, home...

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  • Protests slow down Bush rush to war

    Protests slow down Bush rush to war

    January 24, 2003

    WASHINGTON – George W. Bush’s rush toward war on Iraq ran into a human wall Jan. 18 as anti-war protesters packed the streets of Washington, San Francisco, Tucson, Portland, Oregon, Toronto, Canada and 20 other cities...

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  • Remarkable initiatives in Brazil

    Remarkable initiatives in Brazil

    January 23, 2003 By Susan Webb

    Opinion It will not be easy to reform Brazil, due to the problems the new government has inherited. Lula and his team will face deteriorated economic and social circumstances that have their own dynamic, limiting the...

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  • Dancers soar for skywalkers

    Dancers soar for skywalkers

    January 23, 2003

    NEW YORK – Mohawk high-steel workers were honored here recently in a dance/theater piece called “Eagle Spirit.” Because the ironworkers walk through a space which belongs to feathered beings, the program’s theme was affinity with eagles....

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