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Cuba signs UN human rights pact
March 8, 2008Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced at a Feb. 28 press conference at UN headquarters in New York that he had just signed two human rights accords originally introduced in the world body in 1976....
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Gloria Freedman, 92
March 8, 2008Union activist, housing organizer, loving mother, stalwart supporter of the People’s Weekly World newspaper and lifelong communist Gloria Freedman passed away Feb. 16 in New York City at the age of 92. Born Gloria Silver in...
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Colombias incursion into Ecuador: Who gains?
March 8, 2008In the last few years a political sea-change has swept away most of the U.S.-sponsored, repressive military dictatorships in South America. Democratically elected and in some cases explicitly socialist-oriented governments predominate from Venezuela and Ecuador to...
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Mexican-American Emma Tenayuca fought for women workers
March 8, 2008By 1934, Emma Tennyuca she was 18-years-old and was arrested for her leadership role in the organization of Mexican women in the Finck Cigar Strike. It was the first time in San Antonio’s labor history when...
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Okinawa rape provokes fury at role of U.S. base
March 8, 2008What would happen if there was a highly organized group of people in a U.S. state that was responsible for more than 100 crimes per year on average? What if a member of that group was...
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