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HARC Unionizes -
...Immediately,
management confronted the workers in mandatory meetings, also known as
captive audience meetings. Although these mandatory meetings are
completely legal, HARC workers were subjected to anti-union videos
which depicted disgruntled union workers as angry, violent and
foulmouthed troublemakers. more
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Courant's bogus bills-
After about six months and thousands of pages of Wal-Mart circulars,
chiropractic advertisements and misleading “news” mostly from the AP
(associated press), Reuters, and Washington Post instead of local CT
writers, and sick of seeing the smiling faces of the Hartford elite in
the Java section showing up at corporate charity events... For more media watch,
click here.
Brokeback Mountain -
...Honest in its sexuality (no
stereotypical queer scenes)... more in
Arts.
Venezuela Analysis -
By 1983 oil prices were falling and
excessive borrowing brought on a debt crisis. Austerity measures
introduced in 1989 were met by rioting in Caracas. Two unsuccessful
coup attempts, one of them led by Hugo Chávez, followed in 1992. In
1993 Pérez was impeached on corruption charges. In 1998, 2000 and 2004
Chávez won and retained the presidency by large majorities...
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