The giant retailer Wal-Mart has set its sights on Rosemead, Calif., a small working-class city on the east side of Los Angeles. What concerns the labor movement most is that this time Wal-Mart seeks to build a “supercenter” that will sell groceries as well as clothing and hardware, competing with union retailers in the food industry. Wal-Mart was a major factor in last year’s supermarket strike. 
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Feb 12, 2005
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Anyone attending the fifth World Social Forum here couldn’t miss it. Situated right in the middle of the “World Social Territory,” a vast swath of land alongside Guaiba Lake that was home to this year’s events, was the sprawling Youth Encampment.
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Declaring a three-year state of emergency, Nepal’s King Gyanendra dismissed the nation’s cabinet on Feb. 2 and assumed absolute power for the second time in three years.
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The failure in December to secure an agreement on reviving the Good Friday institutions and unsubstantiated police allegations of Irish Republican Army involvement in the $50 million Northern Bank heist have combined to place the Irish peace process in the coldest corner of the political freezer it has occupied in over two years.
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Israel/Palestine: Struggle continues over E. Jerusalem / Germany: 5 million unemployed / S. Africa: ‘Victory’ over layoffs / Cuba/Venezuela: Working to end illiteracy
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Social Security plays an exceptionally important role in the economic life of African Americans:
Social Security is the main source of retirement income for most elderly African Americans, and the only source for 40 percent.
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Unions are rightly proud of the outstanding former leaders. The Mine Workers venerate John L. Lewis, Teamsters love Jimmy Hoffa, and the Auto Workers are outright devoted to the memory of Walter Reuther!
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The Vindicator newspaper strike here in Youngstown continues into its 12th week. Workers on the picket line have grown hardy against the winter.
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Celebrex. Vioxx. Bextra. Celecoxib.
These so-called cox-2 drugs became household names because of the fortune our pharmaceutical companies spent selling their wares to America’s households on primetime TV. Now they are even more in the public eye, but certainly not in the way intended.
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Pages from workers’ lives
At age 19, the 1946 Deep Sea Strike climaxed my radicalization into unionism. The drama of the event stamped solidarity into my soul forever. Crews pouring off their ships, marching to the union hall on Fleet Street, the multitude of seamen milling about.
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