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Tens of
Thousands take to the streets
Yesterday,
workers of ICE, teachers and other small
groups took to the streets on a peaceful and
uneventful march to Presidential House. >more
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here for fotos of the march.
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ICE Strike: Day 21 - the
end could be today!
• A deal is made: workers to meet today to discuss
going back to work
The strike at
ICE could be over today, after which last night there was an agreement
reached between the Government, Pablo Cob the executive president of the Institute, and
union leaders to end the work stoppage that began the 16th of May.
>more
Teacher's Strike: Day
4
• Hard
negotiations between government and teacher's union
The negotiations between
the government and the teacher's unions, to put an
end to a strike that is affecting public schools and
colleges, is no way near and with no solution in
sight. The possibilities that some agreement could
be reached last night after intense negotiations,
was very small. >more
Ericsson Hands IT Over To HP
Hewlett-Packard
will run the IT department for Ericsson in what it calls one of its biggest
outsourcing deals of the year. >more
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: ENVIRONMENT
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No
Forest for the Trees
SANTIAGO,
(IPS) - A tree plantation is not a forest,
says forestry engineer Rodrigo Herrera, of
Greenpeace-Chile, one of many
environmentalists in Latin America fighting to
preserve native forests as integral ecosystems
-- with many frustrations and relatively few
advances to show for their efforts.
Africa and South America were the regions of
the world that lost most natural forest in the
1990s, when deforestation reached an average
annual rate of 16.1 million hectares, 15.2
million hectares in tropical regions,
according to a report from the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). >more
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