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Phila. labor against war
January 16, 2003PHILADELPHIA – At its Jan. 8 meeting the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Central Labor Council passed a resolution against the war in Iraq. The Phila. Labor Council wanted to go on record as strongly opposing the Bush administration’s...
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Hundreds protest at INS
January 16, 2003CHICAGO – Several hundred Chicagoans rallied in front of the office of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service here Jan. 10 to protest the heavy-handed methods used by the government with people from Middle Eastern nations...
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Corporate militarism on the rise in Colombia
January 16, 2003On December 31, 2002, Alfredo Porras Rueda was detained by the Colombian government. In a televised statement hours later, General Jairo Duvan Pineda, commander of the Fifth Division of the Colombian Army, accused Rueda of being...
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Of Lungos & Seoritos: A Colombian view of Venezuela
January 16, 2003At the petroleum refinery of Barrancabermeja the workers who are consigned to hard manual labor are called “lungos.” There are a lot of them and they earn very little. They are almost all temporary laborers and...
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Indian secularism suffers blow in Gujarat elections
January 11, 2003AHMDABAD, Gujarat ? 'The BJP's victory is a setback for the cause of secular democracy,' said D. Raja, leader of the Communist Party of India. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 127 seats, gaining...
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