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Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au Prince
We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a …
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Thais Back Ousted Prime Minister’s Party in Landslide
Bangkok - The party of the fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won an overwhelming victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday that could turn Thai …
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Greece Jails US Captain in Gaza Flotilla
Athens - The American captain of a United States-flagged boat in the planned flotilla to Gaza was jailed Saturday, a day after trying to sail out of port, flotilla …
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Executives’ Pay at Big Companies Rose 23 Percent Last Year
(Photo: Théo La Photo) It turns out that the good times are even better than we thought for American chief executives. A preliminary examination ofexecutive …
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Gaza Flotilla Move Sinks
(Photo: robotswanking / Flickr) Tel Aviv - The besieger is besieged, such is the forlorn fact emanating from the order by Greece to block the ships docked …
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From the Reservation to the Airwaves: Navajo Band Battles Injustice
Blackfire performing at “The Unsung Heros of Time '09” (Photo: Rezboy / Wikimedia) “For us, music is a strategic tool to communicate social injustices that we face,” …
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No End in Sight as Minnesotans Grapple With State Shutdown
(Photo: Holly Hayes / Wikimedia) St. Paul - The state of Minnesota screeched to a stop on Friday. State parks were barricaded, and campers, Boy …
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Royalists Attack Peaceful Protesters in Morocco
(Photos: Francesco La Pia) Pro-king royalists violently quelled a February 20 movement protest in Rabat's Old City, on the eve of Morocco's much trumpeted referendum on the …
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Qaddafi Threatens Europe With Attacks
Bir Ayad, Libya - In a defiant speech broadcast to an unusually large gathering of his supporters on Friday, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi threatened attacks on Europe if NATO did …
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Number of Mexico’s Missing Swells, Families Call for Help
Mexico City - Gangsters may have claimed the lives of Maria Concepcion Vizarretea's three older brothers, but she doesn't know for sure, and her private agony is part of …