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  • Send solidarity greetings

    Send solidarity greetings

    December 22, 2006

    Five Cuban men — the “Cuban Five” — have been in U.S. jails for over eight years. They were seeking to expose organizers of terrorism against Cuba. The appeal process has not yet run its course....

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  • Winds of change buffet U.S. Cuba policies

    Winds of change buffet U.S. Cuba policies

    December 22, 2006

    The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced recently that film director Oliver Stone and four associates would pay a $6,322 fine for traveling to Cuba. Stone’s film crew had been in Cuba in...

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  • Portuguese public workers battle austerity plan

    Portuguese public workers battle austerity plan

    December 22, 2006

    LISBON, Portugal — A two-day general strike brought this nation to a standstill Nov. 9-10 as 750,000 public workers protested the government’s plan to impose vicious wage and benefit cutbacks at the insistence of the Brussels-based...

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  • 24th W.Va. miner killed on job

    24th W.Va. miner killed on job

    December 22, 2006

    Longtime residents of this state remark, “The only time West Virginia gets on the news is when there is a mining disaster or when a miner dies at work.” The state was back in the news...

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  • Journalists, singers: Stop corp. media grab

    Journalists, singers: Stop corp. media grab

    December 22, 2006

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — “We gather here with a goal — to protect this country’s democracy by ensuring that many independent, credible voices are heard on our nation’s airwaves and in the press,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigative...

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