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Week of action unites students, workers
April 11, 2008Imagine a world where everyone who chooses to can go to college. A world where workers on school campuses and in communities have a voice about their working conditions, where the fruits and vegetables that people...
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Record numbers of Americans rely on food stamps
April 11, 2008CHICAGO — Human suffering, more than Wall Street indicators, tells us the world’s richest nation is plunging into its most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, while the Iraq war continues to drain the nation’s...
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Blogging from India #8 — India’s neighbors: South Asia update
April 11, 2008Historic elections in this impoverished Hindu kingdom will take place April 15. The monarchy, which has ruled Nepal for more than 200 years, is expected to be abolished and a parliamentary form of democracy will take...
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Cuba innovates
April 11, 2008For Mariela Castro, interviewed recently in Italy, Cuba is “a country in revolution, in constant change.” The daughter of Cuba’s former president and head of the National Institute for Sex Education added, “Space exists to discuss...
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Decision time for Colombia: Labor rights or death
April 10, 2008As the countdown begins for Congress to vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, debate is intensifying on both sides of the issue. On April 7 President Bush sent the agreement to Congress. Under fast track...
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