Word: worker
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...make it a broader redirection of Congress as it truly represents the people has not been tried before... Any kind of social justice proposal has to be premised on a shift of power, and that's what happened with slavery and the women's right to vote and worker standards. It was all shift of power...
...video in which a notable Fidelista, National Assembly leader Ricardo Alarcón, is hectored during a visit to the University of Havana. In the video, an angry student peppers a visibly flummoxed Alarcón with the kind of questions that usually get Cubans tossed into jail: Why does a worker have to toil two or three days just to be able to buy a toothbrush? Why can't Cubans freely travel abroad...
...danger is both real and perceived, and the view of Iraq by any veteran aid worker is colored by the brutal 2004 kidnapping and beheading of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born CARE international aid worker who had been living in Iraq since...
...Cuba - and perhaps a harbinger of the post-Fidel Castro era. Earlier this month a video surfaced on the island showing a Havana university student, Eliecer Avila, peppering National Assembly leader Ricardo Alarcon with the kind of public questions that usually get Cubans tossed in jail. Why does a worker have to toil two or three days just to be able to buy a toothbrush? Avila, a computer science major, asked the visibly flummoxed Alarcon, who was visiting Avila's school outside Havana. Why can't Cubans freely travel abroad? Why don't they have access to the nice restaurants...
...years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers say they have just returned from group holidays in Thailand and China. "I never had this much money in my life," say Ah Yew, a 58-year-old rubber-plantation worker...