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  • 16 workers die per day, report says

    16 workers die per day, report says

    May 4, 2007

    PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (PAI) — Just about two years ago, plumber Charles “Mike” Morrison was helping dig a trench in a Pinellas Park, Fla. But the trench had straight sides, not sloping sides, and B&B Plumbing...

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  • A new spirit in the air

    A new spirit in the air

    May 4, 2007

    The overwhelming response condemning the reprehensible comments of radio “shock jock” Don Imus is a reminder, if one were needed, that racism and sexism remain a virulent presence in the United States. But it also demonstrated...

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  • Social justice at stake in Mumia Abu-Jamal case

    Social justice at stake in Mumia Abu-Jamal case

    May 4, 2007 By Rosita Johnson

    Worldwide, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row for 25 years now, are hopeful that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will grant him a new trial on May 17. The court will hear...

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  • A critical time for immigrant rights

    A critical time for immigrant rights

    May 4, 2007

    May Day demonstrations across the country accelerated grassroots pressure to make legalization and social justice, instead of punitive and profit-oriented measures, the priority in the public and congressional debates on immigrant rights. They also protested the...

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  • Boris Yeltsin and Jenny Lopez

    Boris Yeltsin and Jenny Lopez

    May 4, 2007

    A few days ago, according to Pravda (the former paper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union now specializing in National Inquirer-like gossip), a newly rich 35-year-old Russian billionaire banker, Andrei Melnichenko, paid Jennifer Lopez...

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