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Photo gallery: Silicon Valley janitors go on strike
May 22, 2008MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (5/20/08) -- Silicon Valley janitors, mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America, walked out of Cisco Systems and Yahoo buildings in the first day of a Bay Area-wide strike intended to force building...
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BOOK REVIEW
May 21, 2008Bush vs. Chavez, Washington’s War on Venezuela By Eva Golinger Building on her earlier book “Chavez Code” (Olive Branch Press, 2006), Eva Golinger has written “Bush vs. Chavez, Washington’s War on Venezuela,' (Monthly Review Press, 2008...
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Security officers stand up for a union
May 21, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — They’re the only workers inside Kaiser health care facilities, whether employed directly or contracted, who are denied the right to form a union. And as hundreds of them demonstrated with a three-day unfair...
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Siege mentality prevails in Bogota
May 21, 2008Without warning, the Colombian government shipped 14 imprisoned paramilitary chieftains to the United States on May 13 for prosecution on drug trafficking. The Alvaro Uribe government has intensified accusations that the Venezuelan and Ecuadorian governments are...
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Michigan Summit draws 700, ready for change
May 21, 2008LANSING, Mich. — They came from the American Federation of Teachers, the Michigan Educational Association, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, ACORN, Working America, Triangle Foundation, NOW, the Sierra Club, Health Care for Michigan and many...
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