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Global labor needs a global stimulus

November 26, 2008

“Workers of the World Unite” is back by popular demand. And not just by demand, but by necessity. Global transnational corporations and their partners finance capital are working full time to craft an economic solution to...

Poll upholds mandate for jobs, change

November 26, 2008

WASHINGTON—Pollster Stanley Greenberg confirmed Barack Obama’s sweeping election mandate to create jobs in a Democracy Corps poll that he released Nov. 18 at a conference at the Library of Congress sponsored by the Campaign for America’s...

We can stop the hate, leaders say

November 26, 2008

National civil rights groups held a press conference Nov. 24 condemning the rise of hate crimes against immigrants and communities of color during and since the presidential election. Marcelo Lucero, originally from Ecuador was living in...

Obama projects massive recovery plan

November 26, 2008 By Susan Webb

Although nearly two months remain until President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he has moved onto center stage on the deepening economic crisis, declaring he will launch a massive jobs program to jumpstart the economy where it...

Cutting cane in Colombia, workers win sweet victory

November 26, 2008

Colombian sugar cane production is confined to 500,000 acres in Valle de Cauca and Cauca, departments situated in the country’s southwest. From legalized slavery on, Afro-Colombians have done most of the cutting. Recently they’ve worked 12-14...