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CT NAACP calls on Lieberman to support health bill
November 21, 2009A Connecticut delegation of civil rights groups met with Senator Joseph Lieberman's staff yesterday to urge the Senator to support comprehensive health care reform.
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India farmers stop price freeze on sugar cane
November 21, 2009NEW DELHI- Over 12,000 sugarcane farmers demonstrated in New Delhi on Thursday (Nov. 19) to demand higher prices for their crop.
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Workers, left parties meet on global economic crisis
November 20, 2009NEW DELHI -- There could not be an agenda more significant for the communist and workers parties' 11th international meeting than global capitalism's deep and ongoing economic crisis.
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10 years after the ‘Battle in Seattle’
November 20, 2009SEATTLE (PAI)—Ten years ago on Nov. 30, 1999, 50,000 people protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle.
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Rome Food Summit is a flop
November 20, 2009There was little good news for the world's billion hungry people at the UN World Food Organization (FAO) Summit held November 16 - 18 in Rome.
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