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Shades of Green: Dec. 8

Organizing News: Dec. 8

Casino workers deal union cards Some 2,800 table games dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., voted on Nov. 24 to have the United Auto Workers union represent them in collective bargaining. Eighty percent of...

St. Louis mobilizes against home foreclosures

ST. LOUIS — Housing activists, religious leaders and concerned homeowners launched a campaign in this city’s 18th Ward on Nov. 28 to stop predatory lenders and “fringe financial institutions” from taking advantage of low-income, working-class families...

Calif. legislators respond to mortgage crisis

OAKLAND, Calif. — As the mortgage foreclosure crisis tightened its grip on California homeowners and threatened to impact the state’s budget, legislative leaders in Sacramento last week announced proposals to address the current crisis and to...

WORLD NOTES: Dec. 8

Tanzania: ‘Helsinki Process’ deals with globalization Finland and Tanzania set up the “Helsinki Process on globalization and democracy” in 2003 to provide “a new kind of equal forum” for the North and South, according to Inter...