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Single payer, universal health care gains following in Maine
April 14, 2009Maine residents tired of health care that’s not there and angry at waste and profiteering are finding cause for hope. Evidence for that is seen in the growing numbers engaged in organizing a rally for health...
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Is anti-Semitism back?
April 14, 2009(Translated by Laure Tallot) (l'Humanite) What the statistics of the National Advisory Council on Human Rights (in French : CNCDH) say. On March 2 the yearly dinner party of the Representative Council of French Jewish institutions...
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National unions form coordinating committee; AFL-CIO president announces retirement plans
April 14, 2009WASHINGTON (PAI) AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney formally told top leaders of the federation that he will retire at the AFL-CIO Convention in September. At the same time, Sweeney, Change To Win leaders and National Education...
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Over 150,000 Gazans still without tap water
April 14, 2009GAZA CITY, 7 April 2009 (IRIN) - Over 150,000 Palestinians in Gaza (around 10 percent of the population) are struggling without tap water as a result of the damage caused to wells, pipes and waste water...
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Israel PM has first exchange with Palestinian counterpart
April 14, 2009Original source: New Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday for the first time since taking office. However, it was by no means a peace overture from Mr Netanyahu. His...
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