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Post-Fukushima Japan looking into fracking?
October 4, 2012With anti-nuclear protests heating up after Japan revoked a previous anti-nuke plan, the country is desperately looking for energy alternatives.
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“Master of lies” Romney doesn’t fool workers at Bainport
October 4, 2012Workers whose jobs are being outsourced by Bain Capital closely watched the presidential debate last night from a campsite called Bainport.
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Today in labor history: President Truman busts oil workers strike
October 4, 2012President Harry Truman ordered the U.S. Navy to seize oil refineries involved in a strike that stretched from coast to coast.
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Romney to outsourced workers: Drop dead
October 3, 2012Workers at the "Bainport" encampment outside the Sensata Technologies plant here are in Day 22 of their civil disobedience protest against the outsourcing of their jobs.
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Historic vote to end “bear farming”
October 3, 2012In a historic move, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature voted at its World Congress in Jeju, South Korea to phase out bear farming.
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