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UN recognizes April 22 as Mother Earth Day
April 25, 2009The United Nations moved to make Earth Day a global holiday Wednesday in New York. The General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution by Bolivian President Evo Morales to designate April 22 as...
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WORLDNOTES – Venezuela, Greece, Japan, Iraq and Cuba
April 24, 2009Venezuela: ALBA poses alternatives The 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) met April 15-17 in Venezuela. Member nations Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica and Honduras fashioned a declaration aimed...
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What Bolivian democracy looks like
April 24, 2009Noam Chomsky recently praised Bolivia as “probably the most democratic country in the world.” (Democracy Now, April 13.) “Huge, popular, mass organizations of the most repressed population in the hemisphere [have] entered the political arena [and]...
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Communist parties of China and Japan have theoretical exchange
April 24, 2009(Akahata is published by the Communist Party of Japan) A theoretical exchange meeting between Fuwa Tetsuzo, director of the Japanese Communist Party’s Social Sciences Institute and member of the JCP Standing Executive Committee, and the Communist...
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Sudan violence revives: UN
April 24, 2009United Nations, Apr 22 (Prensa Latina) The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) said on Wednesday it was worried about the renewed tribal violence in the Sudanese southern region, especially in Yonglei state, where deaths and wounded...
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