International

                
  • Cuba: Fullest possible social inclusion for the disabled

    Cuba: Fullest possible social inclusion for the disabled

    August 7, 2009

    SANTIAGO DE CUBA (IPS) - Arnoldo Ramón Virgilio’s legs are of little use to him, but he has a way with words that more than makes up for any physical limitations. He’s one of the outpatients...

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  • Uribe seeks to halt growing isolation

    Uribe seeks to halt growing isolation

    August 7, 2009

    Original source: Isolated Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has embarked off on a south American tour to defend his unpopular plans to expand the US military's presence in his country. Mr Uribe's decision to allow the Pentagon...

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  • Moms organize for end to nuclear weapons

    Moms organize for end to nuclear weapons

    August 6, 2009

    Mothers deepen conviction that world is moving towards abolition of nuclear weapons The following is a reprint from Akahata, translated and reprinted by Japan Press, . About 17,500 mothers assembled in Kyoto City last month to...

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  • Japan peace movement: Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons

    Japan peace movement: Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons

    August 6, 2009

    Following is an article published on July 23 by the peace issues team of the Japanese Communist Party’s People’s Movement Commission regarding the 2009 World Conference against A and H Bombs, August 3-9 in Hiroshima and...

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  • POEM Hiroshima

    POEM Hiroshima

    August 6, 2009 By Teresinka Pereira

    On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki....

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