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U.S. labor leaders to Bush: No trade deal with murderers
February 22, 2008Top labor leaders ended a trip to Colombia Feb. 13 by telling that country’s president, Alvaro Uribe, American unions will not support the U.S.–Colombia Free Trade Agreement until the killing of union members by right-wing death...
Read moreJanitors kick off contract campaign
February 22, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — Janitors represented by Service Employees International Union held coordinated actions around California late last week as they kicked off their campaign to win new union master contracts covering workers in southern and northern...
Read moreWorld notes: Feb. 23, 2008
February 22, 2008South Korea: Opposition delays trade pact Eight South Korean opposition legislators occupied a key parliamentary office Feb. 11, delaying preparations for full parliamentary consideration of a free trade agreement signed last June with the United States...
Read moreIn Iraq forever?
February 22, 2008The online activism group MoveOn.org has launched an “Iraq/Recession” campaign, aiming to “make sure that politicians and pundits understand what voters already know: As long as we keep pouring that money down the drain in Iraq,...
Read moreThe history of the progress of humankind in the Yucatan
February 22, 2008MERIDA, Mexico – Why is it that wherever you travel you can trace the footprints of the progress of mankind? I recently visited Merida, Mexico and found great monuments to progressive struggles and leaders everywhere. On...
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