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Haymarket anniversary marks workers historic struggle for labor standards
May 5, 2009Original source: Workers and their unions gathered Friday in Chicago at the Haymarket monument to honor the significance and sacrifice of those who died in the struggle for the eight-hour day. On this day in 1886...
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America’s RNs call for much broader response to swine flu
May 4, 2009After years of shredding our public health infrastructure and ill-advised minimal preparations for the next great global pandemic, the spreading swine flu threat is at last making clear the very real calamity that could be just...
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Iran attacks Kurdish guerillas with helicopters
May 4, 2009Original source: Iranian helicopter gunships and artillery units pummeled suspected Kurdish guerilla positions in northern Iraq at the weekend. Tehran has regularly shelled Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK) bases in Iraq in recent years,...
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Carter denounces Bolivian separatist movements
May 4, 2009Translated from Mexico City-based La Jornada by Emile Schepers LA PAZ -- Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, denounced on May 2 separatist movements in Bolivia. He anticipated...
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From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlan to Matewan from Mother Jones to you
May 4, 2009Source: So it has come to this, why must I wake the sleeping? It wasn’t so long ago I was asleep myself. Why must I be the one to tell you what you don’t want to...
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