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		<title>Address by GAWU&#8217;s President Cde Komal Chand at FITUG’s May Day Rally 2012</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/05/01/address-by-gawus-president-cde-komal-chand-at-fitugs-may-day-rally-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allow me on this May Day, this red-letter day of workers, to salute all workers of Guyana and to extend this salutation to the working-class in countries across the world. For those workers who are free to celebrate this day, they, like us, expectedly would review past challenges, events and issues impacting their lives and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combat &#8211; March/April, 2012 edition</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/04/28/combat-marchapril-2012-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[02 Mar-Apr 2012]]></category>

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		<title>Sugar Workers protest Proposed Budget Cuts</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/04/24/sugar-workers-protest-proposed-budget-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the tabling of almost similar motions by the two (2) opposition political parties – A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) – in the National Assembly on (Monday) April 23, 2012 to debar the Government from providing, among other things, G$6B to the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denial of NIS Benefits to workers sparks strike at Blairmont Estate</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/04/16/denial-of-nis-benefits-to-workers-sparks-strike-at-blairmont-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The majority of workers from the Factory, the Mill Dock, the Mechanical Tillage and the Field Workshop of Blairmont Estate did not take up work today (April 16, 2012) at their respective workplaces in solidarity with two of their colleagues who have been denied Industrial Payment Benefit by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). Workers, Nipaul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAWU Easter Message 2012</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/04/05/gawu-easter-message-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the bonds common to most of Guyana’s ethnic groups is their religious nature and spiritual pursuit of higher calling for living exemplary lives. Guyanese are guaranteed religious freedom by Constitutional Law. Our people demonstrate religious tolerance as various groups practice their own faith unhindered. This weekend the Christian community observes its most scared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAWU Feedback &#8211; March 27, 2011</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/03/27/gawu-feedback-march-27-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/03/27/gawu-feedback-march-27-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>

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		<title>GAWU’s Phagwah Message 2012: Celebration, Challenges and Triumph</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/03/07/gawu%e2%80%99s-phagwah-message-2012-celebration-challenges-and-triumph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Holi Festival, known in Guyana more as Phagwah, encompasses all the human elements religious-based observances tend to depict – and even more. The Hindu festival of tribute to the Earth and its sustenance of those willing to work the land illustrate the positive side of Mother Nature and its relationship with us human mortals. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAWU’s International Women’s Day Message 2012</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/03/07/gawu%e2%80%99s-international-women%e2%80%99s-day-message-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/03/07/gawu%e2%80%99s-international-women%e2%80%99s-day-message-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very formally, the United Nations Organisation (the UN) has designated March 08 as International Women’s Day – and United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace. The call for March 08 to be designated International Day of Women was championed firstly by the 2nd International Conference of Socialist Women held in Copenhagen in 1910. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combat &#8211; January/February, 2012 edition</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/02/29/combat-januaryfebruary-2012-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/02/29/combat-januaryfebruary-2012-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[01 Jan-Feb 2012]]></category>

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		<title>GAWU’s Republic Anniversary Message 2012</title>
		<link>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/02/23/gawu%e2%80%99s-republic-anniversary-message-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://gawu.net/v3/2012/02/23/gawu%e2%80%99s-republic-anniversary-message-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aslim Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another anniversary of Guyana’s republican status has rolled around. This week, we observe forty-two (42) years since February 23 when, by national consensus, we replaced the British monarch as head of state with our own president. For a Republic connotes power by and for the people, with no place for any real power residing in [...]]]></description>
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