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Workers strike to support occupation
July 25, 2009Original source: South Korean trade unions have kicked off a general strike in support of striking workers who have occupied a Pyeongtaek car factory for over two months. The 700,000-strong Korean Confederation of Trade Unions reported...
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Peace U.S.A. and the Obama election
July 24, 2009Judith LeBlanc is the national organizing co-ordinator of United for Peace and Justice, the largest US national peace coalition, and a national vice-president of the Communist Party, USA. She is in Australia at the invitation of...
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The Henry Louis Gates Jr Arrest: ‘Uppity’ in 2009
July 24, 2009The arrest of famed historian Henry Louis Gates by the Cambridge, Massachusetts police raises some important questions about what this country has been losing in terms of civil liberties and due process. Although I have no...
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Big turnout expected in hotly contested Iraqi Kurdistan vote
July 24, 2009Special elections that began Thursday morning in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region are considered the hottest since the first Kurdish parliamentary elections in 1992.
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VIDEO White House press conference on health care reform
July 24, 2009In a prime time press conference focused on health care reform, President Obama explained what's in it for you and your family, health care and the economy and who should pay for the reform - watch...
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