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As worker anger grows, Chrysler buys votes
October 26, 2007As the anger of Chrysler employees about their recently negotiated tentative contract put into question the entire deal, last week the company moved at the last minute to try to buy votes from 600 “enhanced temporary...
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On the New Orleans docks: Workers fight to rebuild their city
October 26, 2007NEW ORLEANS — A small sliver of downtown New Orleans has bounced back as a neighborhood of gleaming corporate office towers and a playground for the rich. There, on Oct. 19, in the “isle of denial,”...
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More outrage in Iraq, more billions down the drain: It cant continue like this, Iraqis say
October 26, 2007Tensions over U.S. killings of civilians in Iraq received another jolt with reports that American forces killed 17 civilians and wounded several dozen others, including old people and children, in Baghdad’s impoverished Sadr City neighborhood Oct....
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Egypt: The Untouchables
October 25, 2007Commentary Egypt’s independent, nongovernmental press is trying to cope with government regulations that stifle freedom of speech and deny the public access to balanced news coverage. Last month some newspapers decided to write about Egyptian President...
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: NYU Unveils Lost Films Of The Communist Party USA
October 25, 2007New York City, October 18 — The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has established October 27, 2007 as the first-annual World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. To commemorate this event, New York University’s Moving...
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