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Union rights for North Carolina farm workers

Mexican workers headed to the fields of North Carolina under the H-2A visa program can now stop by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee’s office in Monterrey, Mexico, to find out about their newly won rights. Opening...

Protesting 12-hour days

African American laundry womens strike of 1881

With slavery less than two decades behind them, thousands of African American home laundry workers went on strike for higher wages, respect for their work and control over how their work was organized. In the summer...

WORLD NOTES

Greek students support strikeJapan: Peace committee says, ban the Marines. The Japan Peace Committee on March 4 demanded that the government oppose the planned return to Okinawa of U.S. Marines from Iraq where they were involved...

Israeli land grab continues in West Bank

On March 21 the Israeli government confirmed its approval of plans to build 3,500 new housing units in two new neighborhoods in Ma’ale Adumim, an illegal West Bank settlement. The construction would significantly expand the settlement...