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Community backs Hayward teachers 100%
April 13, 2007HAYWARD, Calif. — Solidarity filled the air April 6 as hundreds of parents, students and community supporters gathered in Birchfield Park to express their backing for striking Hayward teachers. Some 1,300 teachers represented by the Hayward...
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Scientists: global warming means dark future
April 13, 2007The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last week released a 1,572-page report outlining global warming’s dramatic consequences for human life, ecosystems and world geography. The IPCC study, released in Brussels April 6, says that at least...
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Senate ready to move on EFCA
April 13, 2007The landmark Employee Free Choice Act, which would level the playing field for workers up against powerful bosses, is now moving towards a vote in the U.S. Senate. Leading the fight for EFCA are countless workers...
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Crowds pack Iraqi Communist Party celebrations
April 13, 2007Some 10,000 Baghdad residents packed a sports stadium March 31 to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the Iraqi Communist Party. It was the first mass event in Baghdad in years by any secular democratic group.
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Students sit in for sweatshop-free clothes
April 13, 2007“We want to be proud of wearing our university apparel,” said Aria Everts, a University of Michigan student who was arrested April 3 after staging an eight-hour sit-in at the college president’s office. Everts was protesting...
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