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  • Expectation over Americas summit declaration

    Expectation over Americas summit declaration

    April 20, 2009

    Port of Spain, Apr 18 (Prensa Latina) The 5th Summit of the Americas, a gathering of all Hemispheric leaders, minus Cuba, entered its plenary session on Saturday in Trinidad and Tobago, where a lot of controversy...

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  • New website highlights labors art heritage

    New website highlights labors art heritage

    April 20, 2009

    For nearly 30 years, the Labor Heritage Foundation has worked to preserve and promote knowledge of the cultural heritage of the American worker through the arts, including music, poetry, written works, theater and artistic works.

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  • Big business blocks working family bills by keeping Frankens Senate seat vacant

    Big business blocks working family bills by keeping Frankens Senate seat vacant

    April 20, 2009 By Seth Michaels

    It’s April 2009 and we’re still checking back in to see who won in Minnesota’s hard-fought 2008 Senate race between incumbent Norm Coleman and AFL-CIO-endorsed challenger Al Franken—because corporate front groups are dumping money into delaying...

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  • A revolution in education

    A revolution in education

    April 20, 2009

    Original source: British teachers may be struggling against low pay, growing class sizes, damaging testing regimes and privatisation - but they have been offered hope by a system that puts people first. Cuban teacher Lissette Rubio...

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  • Greens hail Obama’s ok to regulate greenhouse emissions

    Greens hail Obama’s ok to regulate greenhouse emissions

    April 19, 2009

    WASHINGTON, Apr 17 (IPS) - U.S. green groups hailed Friday's formal finding by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that carbon dioxide and several other greenhouse gases 'endanger' public health and welfare as a landmark – if...

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