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Ohioans urge end to foreclosure frenzy
June 1, 2007CLEVELAND — Residents here appealed to Congress May 21 to end the epidemic of home foreclosures wrecking their city. Community leaders, public officials, researchers and banking experts charged in testimony at a congressional hearing that the...
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Workers rally to build justice at Pulte
June 1, 2007BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Led by several Latino construction workers from the Southwest and by Robert Masciola of the national AFL-CIO, an informational rally was held outside of the shareholders meeting of Pulte Homes, Inc., at the...
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Workers, residents protest immigration raids
June 1, 2007PAINESVILLE, Ohio — In sorrow and anger, over 200 people held an evening rally in front of St. Mary Catholic Church here, May 21, protesting sweeping arrests by federal immigration authorities over the weekend. Waving U.S....
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WORLD NOTES
June 1, 2007Argentina: Children march against hunger, poverty “They arrived as always, singing and holding hands. They entered the Plaza de Mayo as if they were playing,” according to the web site of the CTA, Argentina’s central labor...
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In Colombia, scandals mount and people mobilize
June 1, 2007Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been adamant that 56 prisoners held by the country’s principal guerilla army, the left-leaning Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), would be freed by military rescue operations, not through a humanitarian...
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