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Big victories for marriage equality in Vermont, Iowa
April 8, 2009Same-sex couples and gay rights activists nationwide are celebrating after major victories today in Vermont and last week in Iowa, two states that are paving the way in allowing gay couples to marry. Lawmakers in Vermont...
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Anti-communists attack Moldova parliament
April 8, 2009Original source: Anti-communists stormed Moldova's parliament on Tuesday, hurling computers through windows and setting fire to furniture in a violent demonstration against what they claimed were fraudulent elections. Police initially stood by but turned water cannons...
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Student week of action promotes Employee Free Choice nationwide
April 8, 2009This past week, students across the country mobilized to pass the Employee Free Choice Act in the Student Labor Action Project’s annual Student Labor Week of Action.
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Shoe-repairman, veteran, bobbin boy, Communist: 93 years with a twinkle in his eye
April 8, 2009PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John Hovan has been reading this newspaper, and its predecessors going back to the Daily Worker, since the early 1930s — in the depths of the Great Depression. It’s been a key to...
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‘West Wing’ stars lobby for Employee Free Choice Act
April 8, 2009WASHINGTON -- (PAI) In their long run on the nation’s television screens, Martin Sheen, Brad Whitford and Richard Schiff were always in the “West Wing,” but never on Capitol Hill -- until now. But on March...
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