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Message from Bronx: Contact Congress on health care, now
June 16, 2009BRONX, N.Y. -- About 70 residents gathered here June 13 to “speak out” on the health care crisis. The event, co-sponsored by NW Bronx for Change and the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, featured health care...
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Repression mounts in Colombia
June 16, 2009The militaristic Colombian government, servant of moneyed interests at home and abroad and tight with paramilitaries and narco-traffickers, is lashing out at shadows, represented as dangers to the state. President Alvaro Uribe is seeking a third...
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The evidence that Shell tried to bury
June 16, 2009(morningstaronline.co.uk) The Morning Star can reveal today the evidence that Shell tried to hide with last week's $15.5 million out-of-court settlement over its activities in Nigeria. The oil giant paid the money to Nigerian campaigners to...
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Boston Globe, union to meet on 23 percent pay cut
June 16, 2009The Boston Newspaper Guild will meet with managers at The Boston Globe and the National Labor Relations Board this week as it tries to block a 23 percent pay cut imposed by the newspaper’s parent company....
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Retraining for what? Auto ripple effect hits hospitals … and jobs
June 16, 2009DETROIT — “Hospitals brace for next hit” ran the headline in last week’s Detroit Free Press. The article cites soaring patient debt and free care for the uninsured as reasons for hospitals losing money.
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