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  • Abraham Lincoln Brigade reunion to celebrate humanitarian legacy

    Abraham Lincoln Brigade reunion to celebrate humanitarian legacy

    April 23, 2009

    The Lincoln Vets represent a life-long commitment to international humanitarianism. Less well known is that their work on behalf of the 500,000 refugees of the Spanish Civil War—like the Brigadistas, border crossers—helped lay the basis of...

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  • Image-stories told of Spanish Civil War refugees

    Image-stories told of Spanish Civil War refugees

    April 23, 2009

    The United Nations has described the twentieth century as the century of the refugee. Wars, revolutions, decolonization and economic globalization have uprooted and displaced millions of people worldwide. The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) caused a refugee...

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  • Government report points to rise in hate groups

    Government report points to rise in hate groups

    April 23, 2009

    Original source: Hate groups and right wing extremists are using Americans' concern about undocumented immigration, the current economic downtown, and the election of the first African-American president to gain new recruits, according to a new Department...

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  • Stop the bias at Israel Railways

    Stop the bias at Israel Railways

    April 23, 2009

    (Reposted from Haaretz) The discussion about the dismissal of some 40 Israel Railways employees, held on Sunday in the regional labor court, shed some more light on an affair motivated by clear and overt discrimination for...

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  • Environmental community supports Employee Free Choice

    Environmental community supports Employee Free Choice

    April 23, 2009 By Seth Michaels

    Happy Earth Day! It’s a great time to celebrate the cooperation between the environmental movement and the union movement in building a stronger, greener economy. A big part of that collaboration is making sure that green...

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