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  • Jane Hodes, lifelong activist, founder of Niebyl-Proctor Library

    Jane Hodes, lifelong activist, founder of Niebyl-Proctor Library

    June 18, 2009

    Jane E. Hodes, a longtime Communist Party member and activist for peace, social and economic justice, died June 6 at the Oakland, Calif. retirement home where she had lived for many years. She was 90 years...

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  • Obama, grassroots groups move to protect consumers from Wall Street

    Obama, grassroots groups move to protect consumers from Wall Street

    June 18, 2009

    WASHINGTON — Condemning Wall Street’s “culture of irresponsibility” that plunged the nation into the worst economic crisis in 80 years, President Obama unveiled a sweeping plan June 17 to strengthen bank regulation and protect consumers from...

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  • Thousands rally for Congress Hotel workers in 6-year battle

    Thousands rally for Congress Hotel workers in 6-year battle

    June 18, 2009 By John Bachtell

    CHICAGO — Marking the nation’s longest running strike, thousands of trade unionists, community activists and elected officials marched in a picket line stretching solidly around the Congress Hotel here, June 15, to demonstrate their unwavering solidarity...

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  • EDITORIAL Iran in crisis

    EDITORIAL Iran in crisis

    June 18, 2009

    Iran’s clerical rulers are maneuvering to contain and suppress massive protests that continue to rock that country. This unprecedented mass uprising was sparked by outrage over the government’s rush to declare Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the absolute winner...

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  • New study calls for action on rising hate crimes

    New study calls for action on rising hate crimes

    June 18, 2009

    Leaders of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) held a June 16 conference call to release a new report called, “Confronting the New Faces of Hate Crimes in America.” “Last...

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