2009
Whatever you give, you get back ten times
June 12, 2009Pioneering medical anthropologist and lifelong communist Corinne Shear Wood died May 25 at age 84 in Santa Cruz, Calif., after a brief illness. Dr. Wood’s life wove together her commitment to social justice, medical research and...
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Wal-Mart organizing drive spreads to Texas
June 12, 2009DALLAS -- Wal-Mart workers across the country are organizing themselves into unions with the United Food and Commercial Workers, even in Texas! The organizing committee held a press conference outside a Wal-Mart at the extreme southern...
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Three dead, 38 injured in food plant explosion
June 11, 2009GARNER, N.C. – The bodies of three workers missing after an explosion that caused the collapse of the ConAgra Slim Jim plant here have been discovered, according to police. The only victim identified thus far is...
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Massacre in Peru cements impasse
June 11, 2009Conflict over land in the Amazonian regions of Peru left 23 police officers and at least 30 indigenous protesters dead on June 5, a day of shoot-outs, plundering and incendiary attacks in Bagua Province. One hundred...
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Public health care option seems only choice for rural Missouri
June 11, 2009WEST PLAINS, Mo. -- Janet Redford, a middle-aged, soft spoken redhead, sits across the table with tears in her eyes. After 37 years as a nurse, she's now on disability. Arthritis, inflammation, bone spurs, and other...
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