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EDITORIAL: Human Rights Day
December 8, 2006Many urgent opportunities for action vie for attention on the eve of International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. Besides speedily ending the Iraq war, two areas where the new Congress can make major progress are passage...
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Eyewitness Venezuela: We saw it all
December 8, 2006CARACAS, Venezuela — When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez trounced his U.S.-backed opponent to win a second six-year term on Dec. 3, we were there. The alarm went off at 2:45 a.m. It was election day, and...
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Building people-to-people solidarity
December 1, 2006SALEM, Mass. — It was in April of 2002 that a group of people here first learned that our power plant was importing coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, then owned by Exxon. Two representatives...
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Colombia: blood on the coal
December 1, 2006LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Cerrejón, the world’s largest open pit coal mine, materialized 25 years ago in the midst of the Afro-Colombian and indigenous Wayuu peoples living in this northeast corner of Colombia. The region is...
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Brazilian communist holds presidency for 24 hours
November 18, 2006SAN PÃULO, Brazil — At 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 12, the government of the Federative Republic of Brazil was headed by Aldo Rebelo, a parliamentary deputy and a member of the central committee of the Communist...
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