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Protests rock Puerto Rico: Workers say Let the rich pay for fiscal crisis

May 12, 2006

Protest rallies and marches have rocked Puerto Rico since May Day, when the government closed down 43 agencies, throwing 95,000 people out of work due to a budget shortfall of $738 million. More workers have been...

U.S. teachers study education in Venezuela

May 11, 2006

A delegation of 16 teachers, 12 of them from Maine, returned April 24 from Venezuela where they got a firsthand look at educational changes in a nation where 80 percent of the people are poor and...

EDITORIAL: A special May Day in Bolivia

May 5, 2006

Bolivia’s working people had a special reason to celebrate International Workers Day this year, as their new government, headed by President Evo Morales, chose May Day to announce nationalization of the country’s hydrocarbons resources. The decree...

Rivers of marchers flow through the streets for united families, legalization and rights

May 5, 2006

Northern California: Rivers of white-clad demonstrators flowed through the main streets of Bay Area cities and towns on May 1 — 120,000 in San Jose, 40,000 in Sacramento and in San Francisco, 25,000 in Oakland and...

We can end this war!

April 29, 2006

To end the war and occupation in Iraq, the peace movement must continue to press Congress to bring the troops home and support every effort to move them to act. Congressional Democrats under pressure from the...