Hope and desillusion: that is what the demonstration wants to express towards the Obama team. Without legalization, no re-election was the most heard slogan. That is what reverend father Jose S. Landaverde, an organizator of the march, explains.
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Rosemary is not alone to fight against foreclosures and evictions. She pleads for a national movement.
Rosemary has been living in this house for 30 years. After her mother's dead she wanted to buy the house but she happened to be one of the victims of the subprime crisis. After she was expelled by the sheriff she came back and reoccupied the place. She wants to stop foreclosures and evictions.
A delegation of striking workers from SK Tools went to ask support from Hilsa Solis, secretary of labor, during her visit in Chicago for labor day. The workers from SK Tools continue their strike against the loss of their health insurance. What will the Obama administration do to prevent such practices?
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Interviews with unionists about health care reform in the States. Larry Spivack is president of the Illinois Labor History Society and Hugo Hernandez is national representative in the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) - AFL-CIO.
August 25, 2009 - Union members working at SK Hand Tools Chicago voted unanimously to strikedue to the companys unilateral withdrawal of the workers health insurance without notice. President Obama is leading a national debate about how to protect hard-working Americans from callous employers like SK Hand Tools, said Teamsters Local 743 president Richard Berg. This French-owned company has left us no choice but to strike for our basic needs, health care, he continued.
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Visit to the Palestinian Youth Center and Shatila camp Lebanon
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