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Medicaid funds for abortion? Far from restored
May 19, 2009Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)--The end of Barack Obama's first term as president will almost coincide with the 50th anniversary of the invention of the birth control pill. The pill changed women's lives, sexual relations and reproduction irrevocably....
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Netanyahu out of step with Obama
May 19, 2009JERUSALEM, (IPS) - A day before he enters what some Middle East analysts are calling not the Oval office but the lion's den, Benjamin Netanyahu, re-incarnated as Israel's leader, is determined not to be easy meat...
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New coalition urges Congress to improve conditions for low-income workers
May 19, 2009Original source: Organizations that advocate for working-class Americans, such as the Institute for Policy Studies and Jobs with Justice, recently formed a coalition called the Inter-Alliance Dialogue to address the needs of low-income workers, minorities, domestic...
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UAW workers in Wisconsin protest shipping U.S. auto jobs to Mexico
May 19, 2009Reposted from http://www.laborradio.org UAW workers and their supporters are hitting the picket lines at the Chrysler engine plant in Kenosha Wisconsin today to protest the use of U.S. tax dollars to close the plant and ship...
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Tamil Tigers surrender
May 19, 2009Colombo, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Sri Lanka''s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Sunday have admitted their defeat after almost three decades of long and bloody conflict that killed almost 80,000 people. In a statement...
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