August

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Japanese Peace Activists Call for a Nuclear Free World

The 2007 World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs and related events took place in Hiroshima on August 3-6 and in Nagasaki on August 7-9.

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God 'Dictated' Miner's Likely Deaths, Insists Millionaire Mine Owner

In a press conference on Monday (Aug. 21), Robert E. Murray, co-owner of Murray Energy which owns and operate the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, told reporters that 'What's ever happened, the Lord already dictated.'

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Iraqi Communists Launch 'Patriotic Democratic Plan' to Deal with Current Crisis

The leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party held a press conference on Aug. 20, at its Abu Nu'as headquarters in central Baghdad, to launch its “Patriotic Democratic Plan” to extricate the country from the current crisis.

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Australia: Howard Government Dumps Nuclear Safeguards

The Howard Government has effectively dumped any commitment it might have had to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by allowing the sale of Australian uranium to the Indian Government.

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Democracy and Human Rights in Burma

Our organization, the Free Burma Campaign, South Africa, is made up of exile Burmese activists in South Africa, along with native South African civil rights and former anti-apartheid activists.

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Community Angered Over Push to Continue Mining Operations at Crandall Canyon

The Crandall Canyon Mine has claimed three lives. Six miners have been trapped since an August 6th collapse. Three rescue workers were killed and six others injured in a second collapse on August 16th.

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Activists Hold Reception on Cuban Five before Court Appearance

A three-judge panel at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta heard oral arguments Monday relating to the case of the Cuban Five.

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Philippines: Banana Sub-contractors for Dole Foods Hire Child Labor

The Soyapa Farms Growers Association employed 360 contract workers in 1998, both adults and children. Stanfilco, a division of Dole Philippines, part of the Dole Corporation, convinced 108 small growers to form the association in 1992.

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Bush Orders Exclusion of Children from Insurance Program

Ahead of final passage of a congressional reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), the White House yesterday ordered new rules to the existing program that would force children of working families who can't afford health insurance to go without.

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Activists Hold Reception on Cuban Five before Court Appearance

Lawyers, jurists and others from across the United States, Latin America, and Europe descended on Atlanta, Georgia, for a reception held Sunday, August 19, 2007, at the Candler Building downtown, to update the public on the legal battle being fought on behalf of the 'Cuban Five.'

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