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One Billion Rising fights domestic violence, rape culture
February 14, 2013One in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. Since there are three billion women on the planet, one billion women will experience such outrages.
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Va. election season underway
February 14, 2013All 100 seats in the 100-member House of Delegates, lower house of the Virginia General Assembly (the state legislature) and some local offices are up for grabs.
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Presidential election to be held in Trinidad and Tobago
February 14, 2013The president, is, like the Queen in England, the nominal head of state, however, in this island nation the post is largely ceremonial.
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Union leaders wish Obama had come out for right to organize
February 14, 2013Union leaders see the weakening of union rights and the drop in union membership numbers as key factors in the backward movement of the middle class.
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U.S. a factor in 6 million Congo deaths
February 14, 2013Lumumba's murder - "the country's original sin" - was motivated by the U.S. desire to control the Congo's resources.
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