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Venceremos Brigade challenges U.S. travel ban
July 27, 2007Sixty Americans have just returned from a Venceremos Brigade trip to Cuba, challenging the U.S. ban on travel to the socialist nation. No such ban exists for travel to any other country. The delegation of 60...
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Texans greet long overdue minimum wage hike
July 27, 2007HOUSTON — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) held a special press conference July 22 at the Christian Rescue Mission Church in the heart of the 3rd Ward, near this city’s downtown, to celebrate the first increase...
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Agent Orange victim, activist dies
July 27, 2007Nguyen Thi Hong, 60, a member of the Vietnam Agent Orange Justice delegation that visited the U.S. in June this year, died July 20 in Vietnam from Agent Orange-related cancers. She and two other Vietnamese Agent...
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Hot battle: childrens health care vs. Bush
July 27, 2007The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is under attack by the White House. Created under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, SCHIP is set to expire Sept. 30. On July 19, the Senate Finance Committee...
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Asian American unionists step up fight for equality, 2008 victory
July 27, 2007WASHINGTON — The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, an AFL-CIO affiliate, brought hundreds of trade unionists here July 19-22 to celebrate their struggles and to chart a path for further advances and victory for working families...
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