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Howard Dean tells Netroots: We’re going to win a public option
August 15, 2009PITTSBURGH PA – 'The only health care reform worth doing is the public option. If you give away the public option you have no health care reform. It is a real choice for the American people,'...
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Labor seeks help from civil rights group
August 15, 2009Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is urging the NAACP to help the labor movement organize workers – particularly African Americans – after the expected passage this year of the Employee Free Choice Act. In his...
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More job stimulus desperately needed
August 15, 2009Economic reports for July showing unemployment rising, retail sales falling and mortgage foreclosures at an all time high, touched off warnings from economists: only stronger action by the federal government to create jobs, extend unemployment benefits...
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Tel Aviv protest backs migrant workers
August 15, 2009Original source: Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to demonstrate against Israel's 'revolving-door policy' on migrant workers. Monday's march, organised by the Communist Party of Israel's Democratic Front for Peace and...
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US military aid to Colombia is privatized
August 15, 2009Venezuelan-U.S. lawyer Eva Golinger claims that more than half of the $520 million paid out by the U.S. State Department as military aid to Colombia under Plan Colombia is routed through private U.S. contractors. Golinger makes...
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