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Coalition demands greater transparency of Chicago city finances
April 21, 2009Chicago – With public outrage mounting over the privatization of the city’s parking meters, a coalition of labor and community groups and progressive aldermen called for greater transparency of the city budget and an accounting of...
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Angela Davis: Not another prison
April 21, 2009CHICAGO – Under the theme “Imagine Justice For All in 2009” the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) held its 36th anniversary and annual Human Rights Awards benefit here April 18.
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Ecuador to repurchase its debts
April 21, 2009Ecuador's finance minister has confirmed that her country will buy back nearly a third of its foreign debt at a 70 per cent discount, ending months of speculation about a possible default. Minister Maria Elsa Viteri...
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New moves by administration seen as step toward bank nationalization
April 21, 2009In a major change of course, Obama administration officials are saying they don’t have to ask Congress to add money to the Bush administration’s bank bailout and that they can convert the government’s existing loans into...
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Health care should not be wheel of (mis)fortune
April 21, 2009CRANSTON, R.I. — Wendy Laprade, a nurse and Service Employees International Union activist, played “health care wheel of (mis)fortune” at a rally for national health care reform here this weekend. Her spin landed her on “pre-existing...
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