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Petition: Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, please quit!
August 16, 2013An online petition, supported by the Detroit branch of the NAACP, is calling on Kevyn Orr to resign for "vile and callous"comments.
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Project to privatize Mexico’s oil company advances
August 16, 2013Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, of the right-center Revolutionary Institutional Party, has announced long awaited plans for allowing private industry to play a bigger role in the finances of the national oil company, PEMEX.
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Writers Guild to PBS: Air film on Koch brothers
August 16, 2013The Writers Guild of America-East is demanding that a Public Broadcasting System flagship station, WNET 13 in New York, air the documentary about the far-right oil tycoons, the Koch brothers.
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Utility workers say job-killing FirstEnergy could cause another big blackout
August 16, 2013The corporation that caused the blackout of 2003, FirstEnergy, is about to shut two power plants in western Pennsylvania, destroying hundreds of jobs and putting the region's power grid at risk, according to the Utility Workers...
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Puerto Rican phone workers join forces with OPEIU
August 16, 2013SAN JUAN, P.R. (PAI)-Members of a union representing 2,000 Puerto Rican telephone workers voted by a 10-1 margin to merge into the Office and Professional Employees (OPEIU), the two unions announced on August 14.
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