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Labor leads campaign for moratorium on foreclosures
October 6, 2010Calls for a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures come after several large banks revealed widespread irregularities in procedures for home repossessions.
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Brits battle health service privatization
October 6, 2010LONDON - The Royal College of General Practitioners and the Unite union joined other campaigners in speaking out against the conservative government's "Liberating the NHS" plan.
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Left advances in Brazil, runoff elections scheduled
October 6, 2010Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff racked up the largest vote total in Sunday's presidential election in Brazil, though she barely missed the 50 percent mark necessary to avoid a runoff
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GOP candidates target minimum wage
October 5, 2010A look at races across the country shows that many Republicans are attacking a concept Americans have long held sacred - the federal minimum wage.
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Gay teen suicides are wake up call for nation
October 5, 2010Over the past four weeks there have been six known suicides by students who were bullied at their schools because they were gay or perceived to be gay.
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