Word: laboral
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...years earlier in Hawaii, with the black man who told Obama that a true friendship with his white grandfather wasn't possible. The man's name was Frank Marshall Davis, and in the 1930s, '40s and early '50s he was a well-known poet, journalist and civil rights and labor activist. Like his friend Paul Robeson and others, Davis perceived the Soviet Union as a "staunch foe of racism" (as he later put it in his memoirs), and at one point he joined the Communist Party. "I worked with all kinds of groups," Davis explained. "My sole criterion was this...
...This month, they visited Beijing police five times to apply to hold a demonstration in one of the officially sanctioned protest areas established for the Olympic Games, but instead of being granted that right, on Aug. 17 they were ordered to serve one year of "reeducation-through-labor," says Wu's son Li Xuehui. "I'm extremely angry," he says. "For a common person to be sentenced to this, it's very...
...allowed to serve their sentence outside of an official detention camp, according to Human Rights in China, the New-York based NGO that first publicized the two women's case. But they could be sent to a camp if they don't follow the authorities' instructions. Reeducation-through-labor is a form of detention for up to four years used to punish relatively minor criminal activity like prostitution and religious activity banned by the state, like practicing Falun Gong. The China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based human rights NGO, estimated last year that the system has more than...
...fives her and yells, "I'm Al Franken! Running for Senate! Help me out!" He'll zigzag the length of the parade, sprinting forward and backward, an intern trailing behind him with a towel so he can mop the sweat off his face. Between the end of June and Labor Day, nearly every town in Minnesota has a parade. Franken is in very good shape...
...After the Rogers parade, Franken rides an hour to the Chisago County Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party BBQ, where he asks the jazz band of elderly men to play him in. In front of 50 people, he delivers his stump speech about how kids he meets in high schools cannot remember an America that is respected in the world. Then he jogs off to serve hot dogs. Standing nearby is Jim Oberstar, a Democrat in the House since 1975, who marvels at how hard Franken has worked the state. Oberstar has given Franken only one bit of advice, which he delivered...