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WORLD NOTES Argentina, Egypt, China, Georgia, Afghanistan, Cuba
June 2, 2009Argentina: Worker-run plants continue As the country slipped into financial crisis in 2001, owners of the Zanon Ceramics factory in Neuquén Province fired all employees, holding back on pay and pensions. Workers there and in 200...
Read moreWomen’s group calls for govt. action on ‘domestic terrorists’
June 2, 2009The Justice and Homeland Security departments must prosecute yesterday’s murder of Dr. George Tiller as part of a network of “domestic terrorists and violent racketeers” in a “criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts...
Read moreBy ferry and busgetting there is half the fun
June 1, 2009SEQUIM, Wash. --- The Hood Canal floating bridge was closed for repairs for six weeks beginning May 1. It left travelers seeking to get off the Olympic Peninsula the option of a long drive on narrow,...
Read moreThousands demand health care now!
June 1, 2009SEATTLE—Led by mothers and their children, thousands of union members and other health care advocates marched through the city here May 30 behind a giant banner that proclaimed, “Health care for All in 2009 … We...
Read moreOutrage, profound sadness follow in wake of Kansas doctor’s murder
June 1, 2009Starting with the president, people expressed profound sadness and outrage over the murder of Dr. George Tiller in his Wichita, Kan., church. Tiller, one of the few American physicians who performed late-term abortions, was gunned down...
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