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This will be the final
edition of
E-News Bulletin
for
2013!!!!
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2014 - UN Year of
Solidarity with Palestine
The United Nations has declared the year 2014 as a “Year of
Solidarity with the Palestinian People”, after the resolution
passed by 110 votes with seven countries opposing and 54
abstaining.
Read more...http://www.imemc
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Black Friday WalMart Strike &
Wage Protests Lead to Over 100 Arrests
With the family and feasting of Thanksgiving, comes the shopping
and hysteria of Black Friday. Retailers across the US
drum up excitement in hopes of getting out of the red and into the black
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Read more... http://benswann
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Walmart Now Possesses Info On An
Estimated 145 Million Americans Analysis
Walmart has amassed a trove of personal data on 60 percent of adult
Americans -- possibly over 145 million people -- according to
estimates from a report released Tuesday...
Read more... http://www.huffingtonpost
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Woman Kills Three For Last X-Box
at Chicago
Wal-Mart
A woman was arrested today for stabbing to death three shoppers at
a Chicago-area Wal-Mart in order to secure the store’s last
X-Box One...
Read more...http://inagist
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Lessons from South Africa's FIFA World Cup, Brazil and its Legacy
for Labour
The 2008 report of the Competition Committee of the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the
construction sector found that "[u]nfortunately the
construction industry has tended to suffer from cartel activity,
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Read more...http://mrzine
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The “NUMSA moment” is
OUR moment
Resolution on Trade Unions, Social Movements and the Struggle for
Social Justice and Deepening of Democracy from Below..
Read more...http://www.democracyfrombelow
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The Exploited Laborers Of The
Liberal Media
For years, VICE used part-time unpaid interns—a practice that
we recently halted. We currently pay interns $10 an hour and limit
them to 20 hours a week during the school year and 25 hours a week
during the summer...
Read more...http://www.vice
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Unions Fight to Implement Bangladesh
Accord
The global union federations IndustriALL and UNI have got 116
international gament retailers to sign the Bangladesh Fire and
Safety Accord. Now the challenge is to have the Accord implemented
in the country's 5,000 garment factories...
Read more...http://www.industriall
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City Council Socialism
The election of Kshama Sawant, an economics professor and member of
the Trotskyist group Socialist Alternative, to the Seattle City
Council has drawn significant headlines recently. But in Minneapolis,
another Socialist Alternative city council candidate, Ty Moore,
also came close to victory.
Read more...http://jacobinmag
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How Corporations & Spy
Agencies Use "Security" to Defend Profiteering &
Crush Activism
Extensive evidence showing how some of the world's largest
corporations have partnered with private intelligence firms and
government intelligence agencies to spy on activist and nonprofit
groups...
Read more...http://www.theguardian
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Inside China's
Version of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs, Investors Rub Elbows in Beijing's
Zhongguancun District
On the
outside, China's
answer to Silicon Valley doesn't look the part: It's a crowded
mass of electronics malls, fast-food joints and office buildings in
northwest Beijing,
bisected by congested highways...
Read more..http://online.wsj
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