PHILADELPHIA — As part of the 22-city National Day of Protest, some 200 people spilled into an intersection here for a noontime rally against gun violence, Aug. 28. The crowd assembled near Colosimo’s Gun Shop where 263 guns linked to crimes had been purchased. 
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Sept. 8, 2007
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The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran.
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BERLIN — An argument at a summer fair in the small town of Muegeln, between Leipzig and Dresden, ended with a mob of 50 drunken young men chasing eight men from India, longtime Muegeln residents, across the town square. The drunken men were wielding knives and other weapons and shouting, “Foreigners get out!”
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More than 50 years after the United Nations vowed to ensure the right to self-determination for every occupied territory, Western Sahara is still fighting for its independence.
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Chile: General strike triggers police repression
Japan: Peace activists pressure U.S. military
Iraq: Millions displaced, needs unmet
Spain: Biofuel production means high prices, food shortages
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American workers most productive and most exploited
Unions endorse for president
Labor’s watchdog needs watching
UAW members authorize strike
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SALEM, Ore. — Hardworking and tenacious homecare workers represented by Service Employees Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, have won significant improvements to wages, benefits and working conditions. They settled their 2007-2009 contract Aug. 30 after two days of mediation.
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President George W. Bush departed from his planned itinerary on Labor Day to make a surprise visit to reality, later calling the two-hour stop in the real world “informative.”
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Missouri continues to be a major battleground between proponents of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research and anti-abortion groups.
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A critical issue that receives no attention from researchers and very little attention in progressive circles is the health status and health outcomes of progressive activists and organizers. This column will explore a few critical healthy lifestyle points that everyone in the progressive community should strive to follow.
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