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  • Union Organizing Can Be Deadly in Colombia

    Union Organizing Can Be Deadly in Colombia

    March 11, 2007

    Bogotá, Colombia (AP) - More than 800 trade unionists have been killed in Colombia over the past six years, by government count, yet the number of those murders solved can be counted on one hand. Union...

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  • AFL-CIO to Bush: Set timetable to withdraw from Iraq

    AFL-CIO to Bush: Set timetable to withdraw from Iraq

    March 10, 2007

    LAS VEGAS (PAI) — Further strengthening its opposition to GOP President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, the AFL-CIO Executive Council voted March 7 to demand Bush set a timetable for getting our troops out and...

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  • Movement for peace grows in Connecticut

    Movement for peace grows in Connecticut

    March 10, 2007

    Even as U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman steps up his support for the Bush administration’s war on Iraq, the movement for peace grows in his home state. Connecticut residents, young and old, gathered in 24 old-fashioned town...

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  • CO Aguayo winning in court of public opinion

    CO Aguayo winning in court of public opinion

    March 9, 2007

    LOS ANGELES — The March 6 military court conviction of pacifist soldier Agustin Aguayo was reversed in the court of public opinion as Amnesty International officially recognized him as a “prisoner of conscience,” and a battery...

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  • CO Aguayo winning in court of public opinion

    CO Aguayo winning in court of public opinion

    March 9, 2007

    LOS ANGELES — The March 6 military court conviction of pacifist soldier Agustin Aguayo was reversed in the court of public opinion as Amnesty International officially recognized him as a “prisoner of conscience,” and a battery...

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