World
CWA hits high-tech visas
April 29, 2006Spotlighting an aspect of the nation’s immigration debate that has received little attention, the Communications Workers executive board voted April 18 to lobby against a guest worker program which allows employers to create a temporary workforce...
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Movement presses on in wake of raids, arrests
April 28, 2006CHICAGO — Imagine you are at work. You’re on a break getting food from the truck outside, when you are surrounded and arrested by federal agents. That’s what happened April 19 to 1,187 workers in some...
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Inuit leader sounds alarm on global warming
April 21, 2006‘We’re the early warning system for the rest of the world,’ says Arctic resident When she was growing up in an Inuit community in northern Quebec, Sheila Watt-Cloutier never rode anything faster than a dog sled....
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We thought it was oil, But it was blood
April 14, 2006The other day We danced in the street Joy in our hearts We thought we were free Three young folks fell to our right Countless more fell to our left Looking up, Far from the crowd...
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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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