News
Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers
September 8, 2006For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.
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CIA spins spiders web vs. Cuba, Venezuela
September 8, 2006U.S. intelligence head John Negroponte announced Aug. 18 the creation of a new Central Intelligence Agency mission to oversee intelligence operations in Venezuela and Cuba at the strategic level. J. Patrick Maher, a 32-year CIA veteran...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
September 8, 2006This week’s clips are a brief roundup of a few of the hundreds of Labor Day parades, marches and picnics around the country.DALLAS: Labor breakfast, immigrant rights marchLabor Day in Dallas began with the annual AFL-CIO...
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Pilgrimage for justice: Immigrant rights activists march to House Speakers doorstep
September 8, 2006BATAVIA, Ill. — Bearing American flags and pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary while marching to the beat of Korean drummers, some 400 immigrant workers, their families and supporters walked 50 miles from Chicago to...
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Standoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico
September 7, 2006After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...
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