International
Rally for jobs says Stop the FTAA
October 17, 2003PARMA, Ohio – At a town hall meeting held in the community center of this Cleveland suburb, Tom Frisbie, president of Cleveland’s AFL-CIO, denounced the loss of 766,000 jobs since the signing of the North American...
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October 17, 2003Asia: Coca-Cola workers mobilize Unions representing Coca-Cola workers in Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Sri Lanka met in Manila earlier this month and agreed to coordinate their efforts to build strong bargaining power...
Read moreStrikes rock Bolivia
October 17, 2003Bolivia’s President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, in an increasingly desperate effort to quell the massive strikes, demonstrations and peasant roadblocks that have virtually paralyzed Bolivia for over a month, announced on Oct. 13 that he was...
Read morePressure builds for probe of Bush WMD distortions
October 17, 2003One year after it authorized use of the Armed Forces to defend the nation against the alleged “threat posed by Iraq and to enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions,” Congress is considering an additional...
Read moreIsraeli, Palestinian activists take new peace steps
October 17, 2003This week an important new development for a negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis emerged from a meeting in Jordan of Israeli and Palestinian leaders. The negotiators, led by former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin and...
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