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Black farmers picket USDA
September 13, 2002About 100 African-American farmers picketed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington Aug. 22 to protest stalling on delivery of restitution payments for thousands of Black farmers who were denied government crop loans because they...
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International notes
September 13, 2002Britain: Broad opposition to Iraq strike / Kenya: Police attack protesting teachers / Indonesia: Court orders trade union leaders to pay $2.34 million / France: Union says 35-hour workweek at risk
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Corporate crime goes unpunished in Bhopal
September 13, 2002NEW DELHI – It started in the middle of the night on Dec. 2, 1984. That was the fateful night when poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) spread as a deadly blanket over the city from the rusty...
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Cleveland: Put miners back to work!
September 13, 2002CLEVELAND – The Cleveland City Council, at its Sept. 9 meeting, unanimously passed a resolution demanding that “Cargill Deicing Technology restore former strikers to their rightful jobs”, and urging “the Mayor of the City of Cleveland...
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Longshore workers find more support
September 13, 2002SEATTLE – On August 27, Governor Gary Locke sent a letter to President Bush to help keep federal troops off the docks and out of the longshore labor dispute happening on the West Coast. The final...
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