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Angry about AIG? Here’s how you can do something about it
March 20, 2009Original source: By now you heard that AIG is handing out massive bonus checks to some of its employees, the same ones that brought the company to the point of needing a bailout in the first...
Read moreGlobal labors forgotten plan to fight the Great Depression
March 20, 2009Original source: In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public...
Read moreCOMMENTARY: Obama’s budget could do more for single moms
March 20, 2009Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)--President Obama says we are entering a new era of financial responsibility. Single mothers have always done more with less; they know all about that. But economic solutions rarely focus on how to help...
Read moreEgypt reopens border with Gaza for two days
March 20, 2009Cairo, Mar 18 (Prensa Latina) Egypt reopened its Rafah border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday for two days to enable students and the sick to move in and out, and Jordan sent 227 tons...
Read moreFrance: From one general strike to the next
March 20, 2009Translated by Isabelle Metral (l'Humanite) The Grenoble area, at the center of the old province of Dauphiné, is up in arms in preparation for the general strike called on March 19th by all trade unions, and...
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