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Iranian govt uses force on Tehran transport strikers
February 3, 2006Iranian police brutally attacked activists of the Tehran and Suburbs Public Transport Trade Union over the Jan. 28-29 weekend. Their strike was violently broken up and nearly 1,200 trade union activists and strikers were arrested. The...
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Venezuelan discounted oil arrives in Philly
February 3, 2006PHILADELPHIA — On Jan. 27 Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) announced that Citgo, a U.S. subsidiary of the publicly-owned Venezuelan national oil company PDVSA, was going to begin shipping 5 million gallons of discounted heating oil here...
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CELEBRATE AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
February 3, 2006‘Seven Decades in the Struggle for Human Rights’ Through July 31 Chicago More than 125 rare and unique photographs, correspondence, programs and memorabilia trace seven decades in Chicago struggles for human rights through the eyes of...
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Hunters history exposed in Congo film
February 3, 2006Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Peter Bate, director 2004, Belgium/UK, ArtMattan Productions (U.S. distributor) 100 min., English/French/Dutch with English subtitles An African proverb reminds us, “Until the lions have their historians, tales of the...
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LETTERS
February 3, 2006My opinion My parents were both immigrants from the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. They came in the earlier part of the 1900s. They were both from very poor families. Thus for the last three decades I’ve...
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