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Workers and poor pay for occupation terror
May 10, 2002TEL AVIV – The so-called “War on Palestinian Terror” costs mountains of money. The Israeli economy is in tatters and the Palestinian economy is virtually destroyed. The increase in unemployment is unprecedented. International trade, tourism, industrial...
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2.7 million German metalworkers hit the bricks
May 10, 2002Sixty thousand German autoworkers stayed home May 6 as IG Metall, the country’s largest and most powerful union, with 2.7 million members, launched the first wave of a series of “flexible” strikes that will move from...
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Hi, Mom, its me, Jimmy …
May 10, 2002Many of us use the telephone for e-mail correspondence; I can contact a brother in Iowa, a sister in Japan and as many others as I might want to reach – even my editor in Chicago...
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We come for peace
May 10, 2002Remarks to April 20 peace rally in Washington, D.C. We come here today from the four corners of this nation. We are Blacks and whites, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans; Christians, Muslims and Jews; gay, lesbian...
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The human face of child care
May 10, 2002There is a childcare center in Washington, D.C., where parents have to provide basic resources like soap, tissues and crayons. Children there take a daily walk along busy city streets because there is no play area...
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