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Palestine: Human costs of occupation Japan: Okinawans rally against new U.S. bases Portugal: Communists, left parties discuss European issues Kenya: City slums sit on oil pipeline El Salvador: FMLN woman wins mayoralty
UN, in rebuff to U.S., sets up rights council
UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution March 15 establishing a new Human Rights Council that will replace the UN’s old, largely discredited Human Rights Commission.
Belarusian voters re-elect president
Belarusian voters re-elected President Alexander Lukashenko for a third term on March 16, handing him 82.6 percent of the vote in very heavy turnout, according to election officials.
Rally demands funds for NYC schools
ALBANY, N.Y. — More than 2,500 New York City students, parents, teachers, City Council members and supporters came together here March 14 to demand billions of dollars in school funds that have been illegally held by Republican Gov. George Pataki and the state Legislature for years.
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Resisting war MySpace postings provoke suspensions College students flock to NOLA Basketball star’s manifesto
Bay Area actions to highlight immigrant rights
In a dramatic call for legalization, workers’ rights and civil liberties, immigrants and their allies will launch a week of action March 21 with a hunger strike at San Francisco’s Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave. (just north of Civic Center Plaza).
Winchester workers rally to save jobs
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Despite very low temperatures and snowy sidewalks, union members, workers and politicians gathered in high spirits at the Winchester plant gate March 15 chanting “Save the Jobs!”
Bay Area residents: We shall not be moved!
SAN FRANCISCO — When residents of one of the city’s last largely African American neighborhoods think about the future being planned for Bayview Hunters Point, they are haunted by echoes of an earlier “redevelopment” that devastated a vibrant area called the “Harlem of the West.”
No more environment left to wreck
Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton announced her resignation March 10, saying that there was “no more environment left to wreck” after five years at her Cabinet-level job.
Sunshine State janitors fight for a living wage
MIAMI — Hundreds of students, faculty, clergy, and community supporters marched through the University of Miami campus March 3 chanting, singing and carrying signs.
