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Speakers say Israel and Palestine both in crisis
May 10, 2002CHICAGO – “I was witness to an enormous human crisis,” World correspondent Judith Le Blanc told a gathering here May 3. Le Blanc had just returned from the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. The Israeli military...
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Workers and poor pay for occupation terror
May 10, 2002TEL AVIV – The so-called “War on Palestinian Terror” costs mountains of money. The Israeli economy is in tatters and the Palestinian economy is virtually destroyed. The increase in unemployment is unprecedented. International trade, tourism, industrial...
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2.7 million German metalworkers hit the bricks
May 10, 2002Sixty thousand German autoworkers stayed home May 6 as IG Metall, the country’s largest and most powerful union, with 2.7 million members, launched the first wave of a series of “flexible” strikes that will move from...
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Hi, Mom, its me, Jimmy …
May 10, 2002Many of us use the telephone for e-mail correspondence; I can contact a brother in Iowa, a sister in Japan and as many others as I might want to reach – even my editor in Chicago...
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We come for peace
May 10, 2002Remarks to April 20 peace rally in Washington, D.C. We come here today from the four corners of this nation. We are Blacks and whites, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans; Christians, Muslims and Jews; gay, lesbian...
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