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Oakland housing activists demand City Council action
June 29, 2007OAKLAND, Calif. — Expressing concerns shared by many California communities, affordable housing activists gathered on the City Hall steps, June 19, to protest long delays by the City Council and a blue-ribbon commission in preparing proposals...
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New Yorks police on rampage, critics charge
June 29, 2007BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The New York Police Department is running wild in Black and Latino neighborhoods, using racial profiling as a tool of choice, charges a group of students and residents of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The...
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June 30 National Clips
June 29, 2007ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Demand humane treatment for jailed immigrants When undocumented workers looked out of their jail cell windows, June 19, they saw over 100 labor, religious and legal activists holding a vigil calling for action to...
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In Ohio, Fathers Day rally backs immigrant rights
June 29, 2007PAINESVILLE, Ohio — With raids and arrests of undocumented workers spreading, hundreds of farmworkers held a silent, solemn Father’s Day march and rally in this mid-sized town about 30 miles east of Cleveland. “It is mostly...
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Obama, Edwards top progressive poll
June 29, 2007WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and John Edwards topped a straw poll of liberal and progressive activists at the Take Back America conference here June 20.
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