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Striking loggers, environmentalists unite
September 21, 2007PITTSBURGH — In front of 100 Home Depot stores in Canada and the United States, members of the United Steelworkers and environmental activists from the Sierra Club and the Rainforest Action Network will be distributing flyers,...
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Rethinking Toyota, autoworkers and allies
September 21, 2007People who own Toyotas are either the moral equivalent of scabs or they are one of the most potentially powerful allies U.S. organized labor has today.
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WORLD NOTES: Sept. 22
September 21, 2007South Africa: Cosatu challenges ANC leaders On Sept. 12, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) rejected nominees for the South African Broadcasting Corp.’s board of directors proposed by Parliament, where the African National Congress...
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Chile, Venezuela mark other Sept. 11
September 21, 2007Observances in Venezuela and Chile memorializing the death, 34 years ago, of Chile’s democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende, diverged widely. Allende died in a right-wing military coup in 1973. The Nixon administration employed military aid,...
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Facing impasse and scandals, Japans premier resigns
September 21, 2007After his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a crushing defeat in elections to Parliament’s upper house in late July, and after vowing to tough it out, Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe stunned the nation Sept....
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