International
UN to Bush: End the blockade against Cuba
November 14, 2003'Hasta la vista, blockade!' Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque delivered a blistering speech to the United Nation General Assembly Nov. 4 calling for the end of the U.S.-imposed embargo against the socialist nation.
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Palestinian Peoples Party: Accords basis for peace
November 14, 2003The “Switzerland Agreement,” also known as the “Geneva Accords,” is an important political “mechanism that should be built on” to reach a just and lasting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a statement issued by...
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Students around globe oppose trade in education
November 14, 2003The International Union of Students (IUS) was joined by regional students’ organizations from around the world on Sept. 13 in a Global Student Day of Action to Defend Public Education. The action was aimed at the...
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Free trade scam:Its bad for workers everywhere
November 14, 2003“We’ll be marching with truck drivers and electrical workers, nurses and teachers, health care workers and Teamsters, all kinds of working people,” Fred Frost, president of the South Florida AFL-CIO, told the Miami Herald. Frost was...
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International notes
November 13, 2003Mozambique: Brazil pledges anti-HIV help Speaking in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, last week during his five-nation African tour, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged that his country would soon build a factory in Mozambique to...
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