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Tennessee cuts services to disabled
June 24, 2005NASHVILLE — Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen has sentenced persons with disabilities who require ventilators to “life imprisonment” in a nursing home, according to a statement issued by a civil rights organization for persons with disabilities. The...
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Union pension funds exercise clout
June 24, 2005People Before Profits DETROIT (PAI) — Union investment money is doing the talking — and in some cases, the walking — as organized labor is moving into a renewed strategy of using pension dollars to win...
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World Notes
June 24, 2005Pakistan: Troops jail workers Pakistani security forces took over Pakistan Telecommunication Co. Ltd. (PTCL) June 12 and arrested more than 300 workers and union leaders after they called a strike against the company’s privatization, The Hindu...
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Rigged election blocks Irans path to reform
June 24, 2005News Analysis Iran’s ultraconservative clerical establishment has denied millions of voters the chance to continue on the path of reform by rigging the results of the June 17 presidential election. While all opinion polls showed solid...
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Education gets huge boost in Venezuela
June 24, 2005Revolution, suggests radical educator Paulo Freire, is “the ultimate teacher … giving first place to the indispensable role of education in the process of forming the New Woman and the New Man.” Although Freire wrote these...
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