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NAACP panel: Black community needs green future
July 14, 2010KANSAS CITY, Mo. - At the NAACP's 101st Annual Convention here, political and community leaders from across the country discussed the impact green jobs could have on communities of color.
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Construction workers continue strike in Chicago
July 12, 2010Some 15,000 construction workers in Chicagoland have been on strike for weeks over wages and health care benefits.
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Trumka tells AFT: Stand together, march together, vote together
July 12, 2010SEATTLE - AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka urged union teachers to "stand together, work together, march together, vote together" to defeat the right-wing attacks on public education.
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Spain: new rulers of soccer world
July 12, 2010History has been made as Spain won its first World Cup in "Soccer City" Johannesburg defeating Netherlands 1-0.
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BP claims new cap almost in place, but locals are wary
July 12, 2010"At this point, there have been so many ups and downs that everyone here is saying, 'we'll believe it when we see it'," said Keith Kennedy, a charter boat captain who works out of Venice, La.
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