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  • UAW workers in Wisconsin protest shipping U.S. auto jobs to Mexico

    UAW workers in Wisconsin protest shipping U.S. auto jobs to Mexico

    May 19, 2009

    Reposted from http://www.laborradio.org UAW workers and their supporters are hitting the picket lines at the Chrysler engine plant in Kenosha Wisconsin today to protest the use of U.S. tax dollars to close the plant and ship...

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  • Tamil Tigers surrender

    Tamil Tigers surrender

    May 19, 2009

    Colombo, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Sri Lanka''s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Sunday have admitted their defeat after almost three decades of long and bloody conflict that killed almost 80,000 people. In a statement...

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  • Alarcon: Cuba respects sexual diversity

    Alarcon: Cuba respects sexual diversity

    May 19, 2009

    Havana, May 17 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon, said the essence of Socialism is the inclusion rather than exclusion of people for their sexual orientation or religion. Alarcon spoke...

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  • Cuba celebrates gay rights

    Cuba celebrates gay rights

    May 19, 2009

    Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter led thousands of citizens in a street dance in central Havana on Saturday to promote gay rights. Cuban Sex Education Center director Mariela Castro kicked off a programme of events promoting...

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  • COMMENTARY The Pelosi distraction

    COMMENTARY The Pelosi distraction

    May 18, 2009

    The cable news programs are full of indignation about Nancy Pelosi supposedly lying about, and thus insulting the CIA. For those who have been vacationing on another planet, Speaker Pelosi last week claimed that the CIA...

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