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LCLAA spells solidarity
August 11, 2006SAN ANTONIO — If anybody thought the working class is splintering under the American right wing’s battering ram, they could take heart from the convention of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), which concluded...
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Israelis march for peace
August 11, 2006TEL AVIV, Israel — The biggest Israeli demonstration against the war to date took place here Aug. 5 in the heart of the city’s downtown. Close to 10,000 demonstrators from all over the country, among them...
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100,000 rally for peace in London
August 11, 2006LONDON — On only a week’s notice, over 100,000 people took to the streets here Aug. 5 to demand an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon. Having assembled at Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner under the midday sun, the...
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Hiroshima commemorated
August 11, 2006LIVERMORE, Calif. — Demonstrations across the country this week remembered the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Organizers said over 80 events coordinated by United for...
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Public workers map plan for 21st century
August 11, 2006CHICAGO — “It’s time, past time, that our soldiers come back home to their families” from Iraq, said Gerald McEntee, international president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, in his keynote...
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