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New York Pride
July 3, 2009The demand for full marriage rights was a major theme at the June 28 Gay Pride Parade in New York. The parade route took the marchers past the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar raided by police...
Read moreChange comes to the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo
July 3, 2009Can you believe it? It still seems like a dream to me. This fighting, working-class newspaper is back to daily publishing! Following in the footsteps of The Daily Worker and all the other great newspapers that...
Read moreChina, not Cheney, is now big player in Iraq’s oil
July 3, 2009Attention Dick Cheney: Anyone who thought that by invading Iraq the U.S. would get a lock on Iraq's oil has another think coming. Yesterday, Iraq’s cabinet approved a deal with the China National Petroleum Corporation and...
Read moreNicaraguan Alexis Arguello, world boxing legend, dies at 57
July 3, 2009Alexis Arguello, 57, a three-time world champion boxer and national sports legend from Nicaragua, died July 1. Arguello was elected mayor of the country’s capital city of Managua last year from the current governing Sandinista Party....
Read moreFirst-ever union contract approved at worlds largest pork plant
July 3, 2009More than 5,000 workers at the world’s largest pork processing plant, Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, N.C., approved their first-ever union contract in voting that ended Thursday. The contract was negotiated by United Food and Commercial...
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