There is a “tug of war” raging worldwide over reforms in China’s labor law, according to Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jerry Brecher, authors of a report released April 5 by Global Labor Strategies (GLS). 
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May 12, 2007
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The latest report of a world scientific panel on global warming has called for what amounts to a social revolution, one of the report’s authors said.
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When 30 Canadian steelworkers who had taken over their plant on May 3 looked out the windows, they saw hundreds of supporters cheering them on.
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Acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Pina is touring with his latest documentary, “Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits.” The documentary exposes the disinformation campaign that covered up one of the greatest human rights travesties in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Una cosa fue cierta después de las vistas públicas en el Congreso de Estados Unidos sobre Puerto Rico — la mayoría aceptan que Puerto Rico es una colonia dominada por EEUU. En la vista pública, el 27 de abril ante la Comisión sobre Recursos de la Cámara de Representantes federal, se escuchó testimonio sobre el estado político actual de Puerto Rico y qué debe de ser el futuro de esta nación caribeña.
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Trabajadores a través del mundo celebraron el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores con marchas y manifestaciones reclamando sus derechos a una vida mejor. En otras partes del mundo los trabajadores celebraron los éxitos que han logrado a través de los años.
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En un artículo de primera plana el 22 de abril, el diario The New York Times reportó que la tasa de mortalidad infantil (TMI) en Mississippi y otros estados del sur está creciendo. La TMI mide el número de muertes de cada mil nacimientos en el primer año de vida. Es una reflexión de indicadores sociales, tal como acceso a servicios de salud, alimentación, ingreso y niveles educativos.
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A few days ago, according to Pravda (the former paper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union now specializing in National Inquirer-like gossip), a newly rich 35-year-old Russian billionaire banker, Andrei Melnichenko, paid Jennifer Lopez $3 million to perform at a birthday party for his wife.
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Slowly the truth is emerging that diet is decisive to health. Out of a fog of deliberate confusion and fierce resistance put up by the food and pharmaceutical industries and their allies in government, academia and big medicine, the idea is winning support in the public mind, and a fundamentally new picture is becoming clear.
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Infant mortality rates (IMR) in Mississippi and other Southern states are rising. The IMR measures the number of first-year infant deaths per thousand births. It reflects social indicators such as access to care, food availability, family income and education levels.
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