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Eyewitness Venezuela: We saw it all

December 8, 2006

CARACAS, Venezuela — When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez trounced his U.S.-backed opponent to win a second six-year term on Dec. 3, we were there. The alarm went off at 2:45 a.m. It was election day, and...

Colombian political prisoner holds Bush prosecutors at bay

December 6, 2006

An extraordinary trial, remarkable among other things for a novel legal doctrine unveiled by the Bush administration during the course of it, ended as a mistrial Nov. 21 in Washington. The jury could not reach a...

Oakland Airport workers rally for union rights

December 2, 2006

OAKLAND, Calif. — In a pre-Thanksgiving outpouring of solidarity, over 200 union and community activists gathered at Oakland International Airport Nov. 22 to demand union rights and fair treatment for workers who provide Southwest Airlines passengers...

Play reveals struggles of South Asian women

December 1, 2006 By Norman Markowitz

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In response to Eve Enseler’s feminist “Vagina Monologues,” a series of theatrical vignettes on the theme of contemporary women’s gender and social oppression, South Asian Sisters, a California-based group, developed “Yoni Ki...

LETTERS

December 1, 2006

Thank you to voters This Election Day for me was one of the most important in my 50 years. I have been a consistent voter since I turned 18. In those 32 years I have never...