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Some great films to watch this Womens History Month
March 13, 2009“Erin Brockovich” “ (2000) Starring Julia Roberts, this is the true story of a single mother who lands a clerical job in a law firm, then stumbles upon a giant power company’s systematic cover-up of how...
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Pakistan opposition protesters defy ban
March 13, 2009Thousands of Pakistani opposition activists defied a ban on protests and launched a sit-in outside parliament on Thursday. People flocked to Islamabad from cities across Pakistan, despite attempts by riot police to prevent them from taking...
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Taking Employee Free Choice Act to the streets, media
March 13, 2009CLEVELAND — Dozens of activists committed to workplace fairness and economic recovery gathered here March 7 for a three-hour speakers training session to promote the Employee Free Choice Act. The event, held at Trinity Cathedral, brought...
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Veterans react to Iraq pullout plan: A war that should never have been fought
March 13, 2009While they see President Obama’s 18-month timetable to remove U.S. troops from Iraq as a necessary first step to change, veterans’ organizations say Iraq and Afghanistan urgently need diplomacy and development, not lingering deployments or troop...
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Jobs report worst since Great Depression
March 13, 2009The United States is now facing levels of joblessness comparable to those of the Great Depression. Labor Department data released this month shows in February, employers eliminated 651,000 jobs, the third month in a row that...
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