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  • Venceremos Brigade sends open letter to President Obama

    Venceremos Brigade sends open letter to President Obama

    July 17, 2009

    Open Letter to President Obama from the Venceremos Brigade July 13, 2009 President Barack Obama The White House Washington DC Dear President Obama, On August 3rd, 2009, over 140 of us will be returning from Cuba...

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  • Colombian government targets Communist leader

    Colombian government targets Communist leader

    July 17, 2009

    This July, the Colombian Communist Party (PCC) marked its 79th anniversary. Its newsweekly Voz - the “only national opposition newspaper in the country,” according to a U.K. solidarity web site - published a 2500th issue in...

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  • Steelworker head hails House health reform bill

    Steelworker head hails House health reform bill

    July 17, 2009

    PITTSBURGH -- Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW), issued the following statement July 15 in response to the U.S. House of Representatives’ health care reform bill: “Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) and...

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  • Crowd to Calif. gov:  Dont let our state go up in smoke!

    Crowd to Calif. gov: Dont let our state go up in smoke!

    July 16, 2009

    SAN FRANCISCO ― “Cutting services is not a quick fix. We need to tax the big oil companies, we need to restore the vehicle license tax. We need to increase revenues, we can’t live off cutting...

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  • COMMENTARY Hepatitis C silent but deadly

    COMMENTARY Hepatitis C silent but deadly

    July 16, 2009

    As we get older, we tend to get tired sooner than in our younger days and find ourselves tacking naps, we also have the occasional lapse of memory and joint pain. For most, these symptoms of...

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