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Pakistan’s Home Workers’ Union starts paying off
November 16, 2008LAHORE, Pakistan (WOMENSENEWS)--Asia Afzal, 35, wipes her forehead with the corner of her duputta scarf as beads of perspiration gather on her face. In her two-room house, a solitary ceiling fan is still due to the...
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What Cubans expect from Obama
November 16, 2008Original source: CubaNews As expected, Barack Obama's electoral win has raised new questions all over the world given the United States of America's place in the current system of international relations. We would be hard pressed...
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World Notes: November 15, 2008
November 13, 2008Australia: Unions go global re climate change The Australian Workers Union (AWU) is supporting the Kevin Rudd labor government’s advocacy of a global emissions trading scheme (ETS) despite its potentially negative effect on jobs. AWU National...
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Populist president faces long odds
November 12, 2008President Fernando Lugo, up against an agrarian oligarchy and answerable to a mobilized peasant movement, has yet to introduce transformative measures reminiscent of those initiated by his Venezuelan, Bolivian and Ecuadorian counterparts. The former bishop’s election...
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Gardens, forests and Black artists: documentaries worth seeing
November 12, 2008Some of the documentaries shown at the 44th Annual Chicago International Film Festival should be of interest to progressive activists. They deal with flora — one in the form of a community garden, another the Amazon...
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