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...demonstrators and raped scores of women who peacefully sought civilian rule. Two weeks later, a secretive Chinese conglomerate with several ties to state-owned enterprises and governmental agencies struck a $7 billion deal for oil and mineral rights with the Guinean dictatorship, even as the United States and European Union slapped it with sanctions...
Members of the local branch of the Service Employees International Union, which represents security guards and janitors, joined other unions representing technical and clerical workers and dining hall staff, waving picket signs and chanting as University administrators streamed out of the Holyoke Center at the end of the workday...
...Union officers addressed passers-by on a portable P.A. system, trying to encourage them to participate in the rally as they walked past...
Emeka Onyeagoro, a library employee running for Widener union representative of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, said that University staff were most concerned by the prospect of additional furloughs, which require them to take an unpaid period of leave while still paying out of pocket toward their benefit packages...
...They raised discretionary non-military spending 8% in the 2009 budget and another 7% in the 2010 budget, and polls show that GOP accusations of profligate spending are starting to resound with voters; the White House has indicated that President Obama plans to use his State of the Union speech in January to outline his plan to draw down the ballooning deficits...