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People’s Summit: End blockade of Cuba
April 17, 2009Port of Spain, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The People's Summit beginning here today will urge the US to end the over 50-year economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba. David Abdulah, head of the organizing committee,...
Read moreUnion Jane: The best thing women could do to counteract pay inequality might be to join a union
April 17, 2009Original source: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act justly received a lot of media attention in January, briefly refocusing our national attention on the gender discrepancies that still haunt our workplaces. But now that the issue...
Read moreGoldman Sachs seeks to silence critical Fla. blogger
April 17, 2009Original source: Mike Morgan, a registered investment advisor in Florida's Jensen Beach community, is angry over the role the investment bank Goldman Sachs and its executives played in the current global economic crisis while collecting more...
Read moreFending off the mortgage industry: Savvy activists are winning in court and on the streets
April 17, 2009Before she was evicted from her own home, Kendra Washington took a walk around her Detroit neighborhood. She found an empty home and decided to squat with her two children. “I refused to get my kids...
Read moreGuantanamo inmate ‘beaten with batons’
April 17, 2009A detainee at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay phoned a global TV network on Tuesday to say that he was severely beaten for refusing to leave his cell.
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