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  • WOLRD NOTES

    WOLRD NOTES

    June 22, 2007

    Brazil: Landless workers weigh in on biofuels The Fifth Congress of Brazil’s Rural Workers Without Land, the MST, ended June 14 with a march through Brasilia protesting transnational land grabs and mining privatization. President Luiz Inacio...

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  • Marchers uphold immigrant rights

    Marchers uphold immigrant rights

    June 22, 2007

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After residents were terrorized by a federal immigration raid, the usually busy streets of this city’s Fair Haven neighborhood were silent for a week and a half. The silence was broken June...

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  • Finish the job: take America back from GOP

    Finish the job: take America back from GOP

    June 22, 2007

    3,000 activists hear call to ‘clear the way for a progressive agenda’ WASHINGTON — Fired up by victory over the Republican right in last November’s election, 3,000 progressives at a “Take Back America” conference cheered as...

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  • Cuban Adjustment Act: still deadly after all these years

    Cuban Adjustment Act: still deadly after all these years

    June 22, 2007

    The Cuban Adjustment Act, passed in 1966, has been used for decades by the U.S. government to manipulate Cuban emigration for counterrevolutionary purposes. Along the way, its provisions that Cubans arriving on U.S. soil gain permanent...

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  • Ohio marchers rally for immigrant rights on Fathers Day

    Ohio marchers rally for immigrant rights on Fathers Day

    June 21, 2007

    PAINESVILLE, Ohio — With raids and arrests of undocumented workers spreading, hundreds of farmworkers held a silent, solemn Father’s Day march and rally in this mid-sized town about 30 miles east of Cleveland. “It is mostly...

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