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Dear Santa
December 22, 2006About 200 demonstrators participated in a holiday-themed picket line and rally at the Woodfin Suites Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., Dec. 18. They were protesting the firings of 21 immigrant workers who had been involved in a...
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Striking Goodyear workers seek global support
December 22, 2006CLEVELAND (AP) — Birgit Birgersson-Brorsson, a union officer for IF Metall in Sweden, spent an afternoon recently with strikers on a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. picket line. Wood scraps burning in a barrel helped keep...
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Portuguese public workers battle austerity plan
December 22, 2006LISBON, Portugal — A two-day general strike brought this nation to a standstill Nov. 9-10 as 750,000 public workers protested the government’s plan to impose vicious wage and benefit cutbacks at the insistence of the Brussels-based...
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24th W.Va. miner killed on job
December 22, 2006Longtime residents of this state remark, “The only time West Virginia gets on the news is when there is a mining disaster or when a miner dies at work.” The state was back in the news...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
December 22, 2006ATLANTA: Protests force FBI investigation into police killing Neighborhoods roiled in anger and residents marched through the streets in the wake of the Nov. 20 fatal police shooting of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in her home during...
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