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Immigrant farmworkers take on Exploitation King
December 22, 2007“We no longer have own our slaves we can just rent them.” These words, told to CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow back in November 1960 by a grower in Florida, still hold true today. Farmworkers in...
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Urgent appeal from Katrina Information Network
December 21, 2007NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Public Housing residents and affordable housing advocates are being locked out of the New Orleans City Council (public meeting) proceedings and being harassed by multiple law enforcement agencies as they attempt...
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N.Y. transit union leader speaks in Bali on climate change
December 21, 2007A special labor report from UN Conference on Global Warming BALI, Indonesia — Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint became the first ever U.S. trade union leader to address the main meeting of the...
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Notes on a short trip to China
December 21, 2007A two-week tour of China does not an expert make. I do not speak or read Chinese. Immodesty is my main credential for voicing any opinion whatsoever on People’s China. But here goes. The June 2007...
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The Tree: a poem
December 21, 2007Dear Editor, I’m writing in response to the poem titled “Two Trees” by Seymour Joseph. Please allow me to submit this poem about a third tree. The Jena Tree and many others have been martyred to...
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