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  • Iraqi unions announce new confederation

    Iraqi unions announce new confederation

    March 18, 2009

    At the first International Labor Conference ever held in Iraq, three of the country’s major labor organizations announced the formation of a new labor confederation. At the close of the two day meeting of Iraqi unions...

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  • Sierra Leone: Diamond miners choose cassava over carats

    Sierra Leone: Diamond miners choose cassava over carats

    March 18, 2009

    KOIDU, 16 March 2009 (IRIN) - In Sierra Leone plummeting diamond prices, dwindling reserves, consistently poor working conditions and a lack of regulation are driving diamond workers to start farming, youths told IRIN. “The future of...

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  • ACORN Home Defenders win one in Oakland

    ACORN Home Defenders win one in Oakland

    March 18, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

    OAKLAND, Calif. — This story has a happy ending, at least for now. But one day last week the future hung on a thread for Fernanda Cardenas and her husband, Armando Ramos, as real estate investors...

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  • World crisis slams Mexico

    World crisis slams Mexico

    March 18, 2009

    Like every other country on the planet, Mexico is being hit hard by the world financial and economic crisis. As in other relatively poor countries, the impact is shaping up to be especially hard on those...

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  • Coming together to stop racial profiling in East Haven

    Coming together to stop racial profiling in East Haven

    March 18, 2009 By Joelle Fishman

    EAST HAVEN, Conn. -- Community meetings and solidarity actions are being organized in support of Latino residents and immigrant owned businesses in East Haven who have become the victim of racial profiling by police and targets...

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