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Wal-Mart blocks port security
April 14, 2006A lobby group dominated by Wal-Mart has successfully blocked efforts in recent years to increase security measures in U.S. ports wherever those measures might cut into the company’s profits, a report delivered to members of Congress...
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Victory! France scraps anti-labor law
April 14, 2006French President Jacques Chirac bowed April 10 to the pressure of millions of students and workers marching across France and withdrew a hated law granting employers the right to fire a young worker at will for...
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Today we march, tomorrow we vote 2 million immigrants & supporters stand up for equality & justice
April 14, 2006NEW YORK — In the city that is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, 125,000 people, native- and foreign-born alike, turned out April 10 for a historic National Day of Action for Immigrant...
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Silenced again: My Name is Rachel Corrie postponed indefinitely
April 7, 2006New York City is known throughout the world as a bastion of free artistic expression. That is, apparently, unless the art is about the struggle of the Palestinian people. Or at least that was the message...
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EDITORIAL: Tax justice
April 7, 2006As Americans scramble to file their tax returns by the April 15 deadline, a new tax study got us angry. A New York Times analysis of Internal Revenue Service data shows that President Bush’s tax cuts...
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