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Letters – November 8, 2008
November 7, 2008A night to remember Last night, among a couple thousand union reps, Dems, and a cross-section of our state, I watched our governor, Tim Kaine, newly elected junior Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. Jim Webb and Doris...
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Guild workers demand fair deal from Plain Dealer
November 7, 2008CLEVELAND – Over 100 members of the Newspaper Guild Local 1 held a brief rally and picketed the Plain Dealer Oct. 30 to protest an anti-union buyout offer in an ongoing downsizing of the city’s only...
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Voting rights advocates: reform needed
November 7, 2008Voting rights organizations had warned for months that thousands of voters across the country mighbe disenfranchised by problems related to anticipated high turnout or actions that lessened participation of specific groups of voters. While they focused...
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Mining for minerals fuels Congo conflict
November 7, 2008LONDON (AP) – The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in a ceaseless war for some 10 years with a mind-numbing toll: 5.5 million dead and 300,000 women raped. Some say the most recent conflict in...
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The other Colombia stirs
November 7, 2008“What was new was the breadth, extent, and depth of the protest, and above all the confluence of actors.” For analyst Raul Zibechi, the “other Colombia” was manifest in a wave of indigenous and workers’ protests...
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