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Public fury on jailing of garment workers: Govt raids traumatize families
March 16, 2007NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Shock and anger swept through Massachusetts after agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided Michael Bianco, Inc., on March 6, arresting 361 undocumented workers, mostly mothers, and leaving hundreds of children...
Read moreIraq exit hits Congress agenda: End date for war sets completely different course
March 16, 2007House and Senate Democratic leaders announced new moves to begin U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq this year and set a specific timetable for ending the U.S. combat role by next fall. While not going as far...
Read moreNorth Korea condemns Japanese governments attempt to white-wash history
March 13, 2007The declaration by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Japan will renounce its 1993 apology for his country’s forcing of Chinese, Korean and other Asian women into becoming sex slaves — euphemistically called “comfort women” —...
Read moreUnion Organizing Can Be Deadly in Colombia
March 11, 2007Bogotá, Colombia (AP) - More than 800 trade unionists have been killed in Colombia over the past six years, by government count, yet the number of those murders solved can be counted on one hand. Union...
Read moreAFL-CIO to Bush: Set timetable to withdraw from Iraq
March 10, 2007LAS VEGAS (PAI) — Further strengthening its opposition to GOP President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, the AFL-CIO Executive Council voted March 7 to demand Bush set a timetable for getting our troops out and...
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