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  • Pride Month: Suggested reading and viewing

    Pride Month: Suggested reading and viewing

    July 3, 2009

    These days you can find many LGBT titles at your local public library, nearby bookstore, and of course online. These include poetry, graphic novels and comics, classic and contemporary fiction and a whole lot more. Share...

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  • COMMENTARY On racism, Supreme Court rules for status quo

    COMMENTARY On racism, Supreme Court rules for status quo

    July 3, 2009

    Another good reason why Sotomayor should be confirmed The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the New Haven firefighters is not a reason to keep Judge Sonia Sotomayor off the court as some on the right...

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  • WORLDNOTES: Canada, Russia, Iraq, Japan, Latin America and Cuba

    WORLDNOTES: Canada, Russia, Iraq, Japan, Latin America and Cuba

    July 3, 2009

    Canada: Trade pact approved The Canadian Senate approved a Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement June 17 as Canada’s first bilateral trade agreement ratified since 2002. Critics contrasted that action with the government’s reluctance to approve a Canada-Colombia...

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  • New York Pride

    New York Pride

    July 3, 2009

    The demand for full marriage rights was a major theme at the June 28 Gay Pride Parade in New York. The parade route took the marchers past the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar raided by police...

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  • Change comes to the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo

    Change comes to the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo

    July 3, 2009 By Teresa Albano

    Can you believe it? It still seems like a dream to me. This fighting, working-class newspaper is back to daily publishing! Following in the footsteps of The Daily Worker and all the other great newspapers that...

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