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Pratap Chatterjee, 02/27/2006
Dubai is the ideal hub for military contractors and a lucrative link in the commercial supply chain of goods and people between Afghanistan or Iraq and the rest of the world.
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Cindy Sheehan, 02/27/2006
"MAF (Move America Forward) supports George Bush's war of terror against the world and against America. And if Move America Forward is non-partisan, then I am the darling of the White House."
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International Press Center, 02/27/2006
The EU is expected to give €40 million to the PNA for usage in energy and sanitation services. They will also approve another €50 million that will be released by the World Bank for the salaries of the government employees.
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James Parks, 02/27/2006
Over there, BFS workers labor from dawn to dusk and receive about $3 as a daily wage. Recently the workers went on strike to protest the company’s withholding of more than one-third of their pay for unexplained deductions.
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AFL-CIO, 02/27/2006
The right of workers to join a union through majority sign-up is the key provision to the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 1696 and S. 842) that is gaining steam in Congress with 210 co-sponsors in the House and 42 in the Senate.
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Francisco Rodriguez Cruz, 02/27/2006
The equal civil and political rights for which the founding fathers of Cuban independence fought are still a dream for millions of people around the world, said Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, President of the Cuban Parliament on Friday.
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Various Authors, 02/26/2006
Objective: A 241 mile march that aims at ensuring that the Latino voice of opposition to the War is heard loud and clear across the Americas.
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David Swanson, 02/26/2006
A march had been planned for February 28, the eve of the scheduled March 1 evictions of Hurricane Katrina victims.
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Free Legal Assistance Group, 02/26/2006
By "saving democracy," Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has just destroyed it. FLAG calls on Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to withdraw her Proclamation.
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Promotion of Church People's Response, 02/26/2006
We condemn in strongest terms GMA's Proclamation 1017 which is short of formally declaring Martial rule.
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Jeff Sawtell, 02/25/2006
GIVEN the current political climate of government-sponsored terrorism in support of the US war on the world, it's timely to tell of a time when communist witch-hunts were promoted as the paranoia of the day.
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irinnews.org, 02/25/2006
Apart from demanding the release of Ijaw militia leader Moujahid Dokubo-Asari, held on treason charges...the group wants Shell to pay out US $1.5 billion in compensation for pollution to Ijaw communities, as ordered by the Nigerian Senate in 2004.
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James Bradford, 02/25/2006
Following its 2005 guidelines, 50 percent of the ANC’s candidates are women. Its candidates have been asked to take an oath and sign the “Code of Conduct of ANC Councillors,” which states that they will (1) serve the community; (2) not seek material advantage or personal gain...
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Tim Wheeler, 02/25/2006
Under a headline, “Who Would Jesus Torture?” the National Council of Churches web site urges people to sign the Edgar letter addressed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanding closure of the prison.
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John Brown, 02/25/2006
In the 1940s and 1950s, when the generation of men now ruling over us were growing up, boys could disappear into a form of war play -- barely noticed by adults and hardly recorded anywhere -- that was already perhaps a couple of hundred years old.
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www.humanrightsfirst.org, 02/25/2006
98 detainee deaths in U.S. custody. 45 suspected or confirmed homicides.The highest punishment for a torture-related death: 5 months confinement...
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Various Authors, 02/25/2006
In the earnest effort to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons and open a future that is full of hope, the task of abolishing nuclear weapons is called for more urgently than ever.
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CPUSA Political Action Commission, 02/24/2006
Defeat Anti-Immigrant HR 4437: A Statement by the Communist Party, USA - It would make all undocumented workers felons, as well as those who help or work with them including teachers, clergy, union leaders, social workers and family members.
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United Nations Development Fund for Women, 02/24/2006
The results of the referendum...showed that women had turned out in significant numbers to cast their votes. 60% of all voters were women, and 72% of the more than 9 million women registered as voters chose to endorse their Constitution.
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Joel Wendland, 02/24/2006
Since the mid-1990s, living wage supporters have campaigned for local laws requiring firms to pay their employees wages above the minimum wage when they do government business or receive public subsidies.
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