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Corporate Japan turns its back on effort to stop global warming
April 8, 2009(Akahata is published by the Communist Party of Japan) Japan's business circles are united in standing against the effort to stop global warming on the grounds that 'the public will be forced to pay the cost'...
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CWA forms ‘statewide picket line’ to protest furloughs in New Jersey
April 8, 2009Members of the Communications Workers of America formed a “statewide picket line” on Tuesday to protest a proposal by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine for state workers to accept 12 unpaid furlough days and forgo pay...
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Progressive Caucus backs public health insurance plan
April 8, 2009While one of the AFL-CIO’s key health care reform principles—a public health insurance option—has been vigorously attacked by the private insurance industry, it received important backing last week from the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). The CPC...
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Cuba: ‘Its time to talk’ say US lawmakers
April 8, 2009HAVANA, Apr 7 (IPS) - Seven Democratic congresspersons from the U.S. concluded that it is possible to talk about any issue with Cuba and that 'it is time' to do so, at the end of a...
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Guantanamo medics guilty of inmate abuse
April 8, 2009Original source: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that medical professionals who monitored CIA interrogations at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay violated medical ethics by participating in torture. A confidential...
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