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  • Speaking the truth about Cuba

    Speaking the truth about Cuba

    August 13, 2004

    The Venceremos Brigade was formed in 1969 as a means of showing solidarity with the Cuban struggle and challenging U.S. policies against that country. For the past 35 years, we’ve been sending people from the U.S....

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  • Collision on I-75

    Collision on I-75

    August 13, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    A new book just published by the American Public Health Association takes a rather well-known disaster — the 1990 pile-up of over 100 vehicles in a dense fog bank on Interstate 75, near Chattanooga, Tenn., which...

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  • Venezuela on alert against provocations

    Venezuela on alert against provocations

    August 13, 2004

    CARACAS — Venezuelan authorities are on high alert due to possible violent actions by radical sectors of the conservative opposition as the Aug. 15 recall referendum on President Hugo Chavez approaches. Almost all polls show Chavez...

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  • Iraqi unions keep workers hopes alive

    Iraqi unions keep workers hopes alive

    August 13, 2004

    LONDON — In 1963, when Subhi Abdullah Mashadani was a railroad worker, he was arrested by Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party because of his political activism and imprisoned for eight years. He was one of the many...

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  • Film, family and Jim Taylor

    Film, family and Jim Taylor

    August 13, 2004

    Carolyn Black was a young girl when her cousin Jim moved into the third floor of the family’s six-flat. “He loved taking pictures of anything and anybody,” Black said. “He introduced to all the young people...

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