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July 7 THIS WEEK IN LABOR
July 6, 2007Moldy food found at Farmer Joe’s; How about American Vulture?; Farm workers toil in extreme heat; Fast track dies; We’d deliver, but our bosses won’t let us
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July 7 WORLD NOTES
July 6, 2007Bolivia: Regional leaders form Bank of the South The “Solidarity Bank of the People of the South” was launched June 27-28 at the Summit of the Peoples in Paraguay and concurrently in Venezuela at the Summit...
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Puerto Rico remains a colony, panel says
July 6, 2007The colonial status of Puerto Rico is once again coming up for review by the United Nations General Assembly. The UN’s Special Decolonization Committee placed the issue on the larger body’s agenda by unanimously adopting a...
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UN: Climate change fuels Sudan conflict
July 6, 2007UNITED NATIONS — Environmental degradation is a root cause of Sudan’s conflicts, says a June 22 UN report. Without addressing this issue, a lasting peace is unlikely, the report says. Hundreds of thousands of people have...
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Black voters to figure prominently in 2008 race
July 6, 2007There’s consensus among political experts that the location, moderator and audience at the June 28 Democratic presidential debate, held at Howard University, forced candidates to discuss solutions to issues concerning Blacks and other minority voters. A...
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