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A peoples victory in El Salvador
March 17, 2009The people of El Salvador made history March 15 by electing Mauricio Funes as the country’s next president. Funes’ election marks a seismic political shift in this war-torn and poverty-stricken nation. Funes, a candidate of the...
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Ohio city backs pension fight: proud to stand with steelworkers
March 17, 2009CANTON, Ohio — The City Council in this steel town last week, in a chamber packed with men and women in union caps and jackets, unanimously passed a resolution supporting the steelworkers’ fight to regain their...
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World forests rapidly disappearing biofuels a major driver
March 17, 2009ROME — In a reaction to the alarming data released March 16 in the 2009 State of the World's Forests report by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Friends of the Earth International and the...
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Health reform forum: Who is going to help this woman?
March 17, 2009DEARBORN, Mich. — “We have an economic crisis and one of the primary reasons is health care. We cannot afford not to reform,” Melody Barnes, director of President Obama’s Domestic Policy Council, told a White House...
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A cure for todays Black depression
March 17, 2009We knew that 2009 would be a historic year, with the inauguration of the first African American president and the deepening of what is likely to be the most serious fiscal crisis since the Great Depression....
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