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Puerto Rican unions against layoffs
March 5, 2009San Juan, Mar 4 (Prensa Latina) Puerto Rican Governor Luis G. Fortuño's decision to fire 30,000 public employee will create social unrest, union leader Jose Rodriguez warned on Wednesday. Puerto Rican Workers' Federation (FTPR) said the...
Read moreGerman police crack down on neonazi movement
March 5, 2009Original source: German police kicked off a nationwide crackdown on the country's neonazi movement on Wednesday. The Federal Crime Office (BKA) said that police had raided more than 200 homes and businesses of people suspected of...
Read moreShrazade: Symbol of womens struggle
March 5, 2009Translated by Helen Robertshaw (lHumainte) The young woman, victim of a jilted suitor who attempted to burn her alive in 2005, hopes that her trial will draw attention to violence against women. In front of Seine-Saint-Denis...
Read moreCOMMENTARY: Republican Party racism is at fever pitch
March 5, 2009Recently the Republican-owned New York Post ran a scurrilous racist cartoon comparing Obama to the Connecticut chimpanzee that was shot dead by the police. The headline read, “Who’s going to write the stimulus package now?”, a...
Read moreResearchers combat antibiotic resistance with engineered viruses
March 5, 2009A new approach to fight bacterial infections, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Boston University (BU), could help prevent bacteria from developing antibiotic resistance and kill those that have already become resistant.
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