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New report shows millions lost health coverage during the recession
May 11, 2009Original source: A new report on health care coverage over the last 15 months by the Center for American Progress shows that rapid increases in unemployment have increased the number of uninsured Americans. Nearly 60 percent...
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Zuma sworn in as president of South Africa
May 11, 2009Pretoria, May 9 (Prensa Latina) Jacob Zuma, the winner for the African National Congress in the polls of April 22, took the oath of office Saturday as the fourth South African president since apartheid. Under tight...
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BOOK REVIEW A Red Family
May 10, 2009The 2002 death of former Communist Party activist and longtime civil rights/labor activist Junius Scales concluded one of America's most distinctive lives. Convicted of a felony in the 1950s solely for his party membership, Scales appealed...
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Markets rally with US banking audit
May 10, 2009Original source: World stock markets rose on Friday with the results of the US government's banking 'stress test.' US President Barack Obama ordered the audit of the degree of recapitalisation needed by the 19 biggest US...
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Netroots Nation Salon: The fight for Employee Free Choice, online and off
May 10, 2009Online organizers and progressive activists from inside and outside the union movement met today at the AFL-CIO for a frank conversation about the state of the Employee Free Choice Act and how online activism can help...
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