News
EDITORIAL: Racism is still a threat
December 1, 2006A majority of voters rejected Karl Rove’s use of “wedge issues” to split and weaken the movement against the Republican right in the Nov. 7 elections. And this week, our lead article reports that Smithfield workers...
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Building people-to-people solidarity
December 1, 2006SALEM, Mass. — It was in April of 2002 that a group of people here first learned that our power plant was importing coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, then owned by Exxon. Two representatives...
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Colombia: blood on the coal
December 1, 2006LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Cerrejón, the world’s largest open pit coal mine, materialized 25 years ago in the midst of the Afro-Colombian and indigenous Wayuu peoples living in this northeast corner of Colombia. The region is...
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Goodyear workers strike for safety, jobs, health care
December 1, 2006As the holiday season approaches, 15,000 workers at Goodyear plants in 10 U.S. states and three Canadian cities, members of the United Steelworkers, walk the picket lines, as the union ramps up a national solidarity campaign....
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Dj vu as anger rises over Florida vote tally
December 1, 2006Anger is spreading across Florida that once again, as in the 2000 election, vote theft has put the wrong candidate in office in Washington. Wealthy Republican businessman Vern Buchanan has been certified as winner over Democrat...
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