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Castro on July 26: The land is waiting for us
July 27, 2009Original source:Cuban President Raul Castro has said that the global economic crisis means tougher times ahead for Cuba, but the country has no-one to blame but itself for poor farm production. In a speech marking Revolution...
Read moreNew Orleans day laborers want wage theft criminalized
July 27, 2009Original source: Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft. As Facing South has covered, following the 2005 hurricane season, the Gulf Coast region saw...
Read moreWithout reform, millions could lose health care
July 27, 2009Original source: Nearly seven million Americans, primarily people in working families, will lose their health coverage by the end of 2010 if no major policy changes take place before then, according to a new report by...
Read moreContract arbitration: Critical to workers freedom to bargain
July 27, 2009One of the critical provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act would guarantee that workers who form a union get a fair first contract.
Read moreAmateur, astronauts, astronomers and the rare Jupiter collision
July 27, 2009NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration...
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