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    :: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 ::

    FACE TO FACE OR CYBERSPACE By Derek Blackadder, Our Times
    Perhaps most spectacularly, the Internet has created a huge new potential for international solidarity actions by unions and individual members. Still, in recruiting new members, nothing beats the smiling face of a workplace-based activist, someone with as much to gain and as much to lose as you have. And as a space for organizing, the Internet has yet to get even close to the coffee shop down the street.
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