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Why you should read the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo
June 1, 2007What readers and leaders say:The PWW prints lots of news other newspapers don’t — the good stuff, all that stuff other newspapers just don’t run. Read the PWW! —Anne McLemore, president of Pittsburgh Coalition of Labor...
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Global summit grapples with mass extinctions
June 1, 2007UNITED NATIONS — “Something is going wrong,” said Ole Petenya Yusuf-Shani, a member of the Maasai indigenous community of Kenya. Yusuf-Shani was speaking at UN headquarters on May 22, International Biodiversity Day. He and others said...
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Mercenaries cast dark shadows on U.S. democracy
June 1, 2007BOOK REVIEW When years ago Consolidation Coal, Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Steel created their own private armies, including Pinkertons, to keep the word “profits” always followed by the verb “skyrocketing,” and to keep workers under...
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Namesake challenges melting pot myths
June 1, 2007The director of “The Namesake,” Mira Nair, seems to be making a deliberately foreign film in America. The film is based on the 2004 novel of the same title by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Angelinos fight transit rate hike
June 1, 2007LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of workers, students, handicapped and elderly people filled the downtown Metropolitan Transit Authority building May 24 to protest proposed transit fare hikes, following MTA Chief Executive Roger Snoble’s announcement of restructuring proposals...
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