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Portuguese public workers battle austerity plan
December 22, 2006LISBON, Portugal — A two-day general strike brought this nation to a standstill Nov. 9-10 as 750,000 public workers protested the government’s plan to impose vicious wage and benefit cutbacks at the insistence of the Brussels-based...
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24th W.Va. miner killed on job
December 22, 2006Longtime residents of this state remark, “The only time West Virginia gets on the news is when there is a mining disaster or when a miner dies at work.” The state was back in the news...
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Journalists, singers: Stop corp. media grab
December 22, 2006NASHVILLE, Tenn. — “We gather here with a goal — to protect this country’s democracy by ensuring that many independent, credible voices are heard on our nation’s airwaves and in the press,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigative...
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California activists assail Bombplex plan
December 22, 2006LIVERMORE, Calif. — Peace and community activists lined up at the microphone Dec. 12 to charge that the Department of Energy’s new plans for the U.S. nuclear arsenal would boost nuclear weaponry to a level not...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
December 22, 2006ATLANTA: Protests force FBI investigation into police killing Neighborhoods roiled in anger and residents marched through the streets in the wake of the Nov. 20 fatal police shooting of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in her home during...
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