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Some personal favorites at Toronto film fest
November 10, 2006Some big-budget films at the Toronto International Film Festival would be of interest to progressive viewers. “Pan’s Labyrinth” reflects a groundbreaking concept in storytelling that incorporates a unique blend of fantasy and reality centered on the...
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Flight attendants fight strike ban
November 10, 2006MINNEAPOLIS — (PAI) A Minnesota federal bankruptcy judge on Oct. 23 banned the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA from starting “chaos” at a Northwest Airlines feeder, Mesaba Airlines. “CHAOS stands for Create Havoc Around Our System” and...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
November 10, 2006Goodyear tires — how safe? Tire-making is a highly skilled job, but Goodyear is now using “replacement workers” and managers to run its plants. Its 12,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada, members of the USW,...
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WORLD NOTES
November 10, 2006Uruguay: Ibero-American Summit takes U.S. to task Meeting in Montevideo, Nov. 4-5, foreign ministers and chief executives from 22 countries turned the 17th Ibero-American Summit into a veritable rally against the Bush administration. The delegates called...
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European youth defend democracy
November 10, 2006In the aftermath of the official banning of the communist youth league in the Czech Republic, and in defiance of that ban, 15 European communist youth groups met in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, Oct....
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