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General strike in France to protest economic crisis
March 20, 2009On 19 March 2009 millions of French workers led by the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) went on strike to protest President Nicholas Sarkozy's handling of the global financial crisis in France. According to the Agence...
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Angry about AIG? Here’s how you can do something about it
March 20, 2009Original source: By now you heard that AIG is handing out massive bonus checks to some of its employees, the same ones that brought the company to the point of needing a bailout in the first...
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Global labors forgotten plan to fight the Great Depression
March 20, 2009Original source: In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public...
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COMMENTARY: Obama’s budget could do more for single moms
March 20, 2009Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)--President Obama says we are entering a new era of financial responsibility. Single mothers have always done more with less; they know all about that. But economic solutions rarely focus on how to help...
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Egypt reopens border with Gaza for two days
March 20, 2009Cairo, Mar 18 (Prensa Latina) Egypt reopened its Rafah border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday for two days to enable students and the sick to move in and out, and Jordan sent 227 tons...
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