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  • Causes Dr. King fought for are very much with us

    Causes Dr. King fought for are very much with us

    April 10, 2008

    WASHINGTON (PAI) — The causes the late Dr. Martin Luther King fought for, including racial justice, economic equality and ending a misguided war “are very much with us today,” says a labor historian and author of...

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  • Tensions continue at Mexican copper mine

    Tensions continue at Mexican copper mine

    April 10, 2008

    Tensions continue at a high level at Grupo Mexico’s largest copper mine in Cananea, in Mexico’s Sonora state. Workers represented by the Mexican National Union of Mine, Metal and Allied Workers (SNTMMSRM) have been on strike...

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  • Torture memo fuels calls to close Guantanamo

    Torture memo fuels calls to close Guantanamo

    April 10, 2008

    Advocates for hundreds of detainees in George W. Bush’s “war on terror,” many held for years without criminal charges, are escalating their demands for fair trials or release of the prisoners and for closing Guantanamo and...

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  • Greece slashes worker pensions

    Greece slashes worker pensions

    April 9, 2008

    ATHENS — The Greek government overturned long-standing retirement benefit provisions for working people in a vote last week that will have powerful ramifications for generations to come. The new “anti-social security” measures will hit working mothers...

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  • Blogging from India #7  Meet the Communist governor of West Bengal

    Blogging from India #7 Meet the Communist governor of West Bengal

    April 9, 2008 By Teresa Albano

    COIMBATORE, India — West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and attended the party's 19th Congress here in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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