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Asbestos activists hail compensation victory
April 15, 2009Asbestos campaigners celebrated on Monday after an Australian woman who died of mesothelioma was posthumously awarded 550,000 Australian dollars (£270,000) in compensation based on her claim that 20 years of washing asbestos-laden clothes had given her...
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Labor: Bank bailout money being misspent
April 15, 2009When Bank of America stockholders gather in Charlotte, N.C. on April 29 they will probably breathe a sigh of relief when, after they make their way past the thousands of protesters outside, they finally get to...
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Educate or die tour urges federal help to stop gun violence
April 15, 2009CHICAGO – Leaders in the African American community here are tired of the senseless violence wreaking havoc in the streets due to gun violence and are calling on President Obama and the federal government to help...
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Minnesota voters: Give us our senator
April 15, 2009Minnesota voters: ‘Give us our senator’ By Tim Wheeler Labor, peace and justice leaders in Minnesota hailed yesterday’s ruling by a three-judge panel that Democrat Al Franken won last fall’s race for the U.S. Senate, defeating...
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Israels new right-wing leaders pose threat to Israel itself, critics say
April 15, 2009Israel’s new right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and, in particular, statements by his far-right foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, have raised considerable alarm, both within Israel and internationally.
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