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Venezuela’s Minimum Wage to Rise 32.25% in 2012
By Ewan Robertson Mérida, 9th April 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s national minimum wage is to increase 32.25% in 2012, announced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on
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Are Guns the Problem?
Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse Your average American is no stranger to murder. Periodically, we hear of another senseless crime, another mass murder, another
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Join the APL for May Day 2012 in Chicago!
Join Occupy, union, immigrants rights, community and other activists to organize a March and Rally on May Day 2012 in Chicago. Get involved in a
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The Violence of Poverty
by ALYOSHA GOLDSTEIN On April 22, 1968, the National Welfare Rights Organization held a vigil on Capitol Hill in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
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Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan’s brutal occupation
The Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war Recent attacks in Kabul confirm
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Nearly a million Russians have committed suicide since collapse of Soviet Union
An urgent public health campaign must be launched as rates are dangerously high, warn experts Russia’s number of suicides has reached nearly a million since
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Hundreds march in Phoenix against Arizona immigration law
(Reuters) – A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading “no to racial profiling,” marched through downtown Phoenix on Wednesday to urge the U.S. Supreme
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New Jersey dad unveils a culture of teacher abuse in autistic son’s elementary school
NJ dad bugs son over suspicion of school mistreatment (CNN) — A New Jersey man has launched a website to publicize what he calls “a
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Spokeswoman: Bachmann ‘Tar Baby’ Quote Not Racial
A spokeswoman says U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann wasn’t referring to race when she used the term “tar baby” to attack President Barack Obama’s energy policy.
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Romney urged mothers on welfare “need to go to work”
Mitt Romney last week declared his belief that “all moms are working moms,” but he insisted as recently as January that women on welfare need
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