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Lula visits AFL-CIO headquarters

December 13, 2002

WASHINGTON (Press Associates, Inc., PAI) - Declaring “my victory is a symbol for all those who live from labor, Brazilian President-elect Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva warned of challenges ahead for his new government, but predicted...

The choice: Heat or eat

December 13, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

Santa Claus came to Washington early this year. Some, like the nearly one million workers who will lose their unemployment benefits on Dec. 28, will find lumps of coal in their Christmas stockings while nearly 2,000...

Crowd greets appeals for solidarity

December 13, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

BALTIMORE – A near-capacity crowd at Stony Run Friends Meeting Dec. 9 applauded as Luis Fernandes of Brazil and Edith Manrique of Colombia appealed for solidarity in their people’s struggles for democracy and national independence.

100 arrested at UN opposing immoral war

December 13, 2002

NEW YORK – “War against Iraq is unjustifiable and immoral. It will cost thousands of innocent lives, Iraqi and American. And I will do everything I can to stop it.” So said Rabbi Michael Fineberg before...

Cuba offers to buy from black farmers in U.S.

December 6, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

MIAMI – With their land and their livihoods on the line, America’s Black farmers have been locked in a battle with the federal government over equal access to low interest loans, grants and other aid. Now...