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Oregon workers take one on the chin
January 6, 2008Oregon workers lost one recently when Senate Republicans blocked the extension of federal payments to the timber-dependent counties, including millions of dollars in funding which could have gone to pay for infrastructure and peoples’ needs. In...
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Its becoming more and more risky for an Iraqi woman to work
January 5, 2008Spotlight interview: Hashemiyya Muhsin Hussein, president, Electricity Workers’ Union of Basra. This interview was conducted by Natacha David on Nov. 28, and was featured on the web site of the International Trade Union Confederation, . BRUSSELS,...
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Campaign launched to stop violence against Iraqi women
January 5, 2008Iraqi women are being killed and subjected to all forms of violence every day. What they have suffered in the city of Basra is perhaps something unprecedented in Iraqi society. Women have been killed and their...
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Hunger strikers protest indigenous oppression in Chile
January 5, 2008Five Chilean hunger strikers, four of them members of the indigenous Mapuche people, are playing a leading part in the struggle of the country’s indigenous people for economic and civil rights. They have the support of...
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Latin American labor and solidarity activists gather in Tijuana
January 5, 2008TIJUANA, Mexico — Winning justice for the Cuban Five, now serving long and unjust sentences for trying to defend their country against U.S.-based attacks, was a special focus as labor and solidarity activists from throughout the...
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