The so-called beer summit between President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police officer sergeant James Crowley took place without incident on July 30 at the White House.
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Those 鈥渇ree speech鈥 crusaders at the Inter American Press Association are at it again, leading the charge in an international campaign against what IAPA president Enrique Santos Calderon decried on August 2 as 鈥渢he gravest attempt to silence the press that has occurred in the last few years in the region鈥.
On August 1, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) members across the country participated in 1556 local assemblies to discuss the reorganisation of the party鈥檚 base into local patrols.
Being Irish, one of the thousands who left the country during the 1980s economic crisis, I follow Irish politics closely.
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Thirty Thomas Cook workers involved in a four-day occupation of the travel companies Graffon Street premises in Dublin were forcibly evicted by police., the August 4 Irish Times said.
The class war in South Korea reached a new stage with the struggle of the Ssangyong autoworkers. The workers strike against layoffs began in May, and they occupied their plant in Pyongtaek, 50 kilometres south of Seoul.
Premier Anna Bligh was put on the spot on ABC television鈥檚 Q & A on July 30 when asked about a young Cairns couple facing charges for procuring an abortion.
鈥淗ousing is controlled by the market system, and markets don't understand people, only money鈥, Father Terry Fitzpatrick told an August 4 Socialist Alliance forum on confronting the human cost of the economic crisis.
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