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Republic Windows workers come to Connecticut
February 24, 2009NEW HAVEN, CT -- UE Local 1110 president Armando Robles and other officers recently toured the country to make public their sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago which won a severance package. The Connecticut...
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Labor rallies against racist editorial cartoon in New York Post
February 24, 2009Hundreds of angry protestors recently gathered in mid town Manhattan for a noon time rally protesting an editorial cartoon that ran in the previous day’s edition of the notorious New York Post newspaper. The cartoon depicted...
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Stanford: Biggest Texas scandal since Enron
February 24, 2009HOUSTON – With typical Texas flamboyance, Sir Robert Allen Stanford built a financial empire which stretched across Texas, through Mexico, the Caribbean islands and into South America. He was charged by the SEC on Feb. 17...
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GOP senator says U.S. must rethink Cuba ban
February 24, 2009WASHINGTON -(Associated Press) The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the...
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So Long, Salamanders
February 24, 2009SAN DIEGO, (Tierramérica) - Mesoamerica's salamanders appear to be joining the global decline in amphibian species, like frogs, adding to the evidence of ecological change around the planet.
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