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Colombian government targets Communist leader
July 17, 2009This 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
July 17, 2009PITTSBURGH -- 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!
July 16, 2009SAN 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
July 16, 2009As 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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Ironworkers build more than just buildings, they build communities
July 16, 2009Ohio Ironworkers offer career training The following is reprinted from the Ohio AFL-CIO newsletter with permission. “Yea, Grampa, we know. You built that building.” In many households across Ohio and the country, that statement has been...
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