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Listen | Democracy Now (2/14/08)

• Headlines for February 14, 2008
• Entertainment Writers Claim Victory in Deal Ending 14-Week Strike
• “Chocolate’s Bittersweet Economy”: Cocoa Industry Accused of Greed, Neglect for Labor Practices in Ivory Coast
• Theo Chocolate Founder, CEO Joe Whinney on Fair Trade Cocoa
• Activists Call for Boycott of Diamond Giant Leviev for Support of Israeli Settlements and Links to Human Rights Abuses in Africa

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"Payson Team to Lead Child Labor Study," Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, Tulane Payson Center for International Development.

Listen | Democracy Now (2/12/08)

• Nobel Laureate and “Banker to the Poor” Muhammad Yunus on Micro-Lending, Its Critics and the Bush Administration’s Negative Impact on Global Poverty

Listen | Democracy Now (2/15/09)

• On Tenth Anniversary of V-Day, Vagina Monologues Playwright Eve Ensler Focuses on Violence Against Women in New Orleans and Gulf South

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