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Workers, residents protest immigration raids
June 1, 2007PAINESVILLE, Ohio — In sorrow and anger, over 200 people held an evening rally in front of St. Mary Catholic Church here, May 21, protesting sweeping arrests by federal immigration authorities over the weekend. Waving U.S....
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WORLD NOTES
June 1, 2007Argentina: Children march against hunger, poverty “They arrived as always, singing and holding hands. They entered the Plaza de Mayo as if they were playing,” according to the web site of the CTA, Argentina’s central labor...
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In Colombia, scandals mount and people mobilize
June 1, 2007Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been adamant that 56 prisoners held by the country’s principal guerilla army, the left-leaning Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), would be freed by military rescue operations, not through a humanitarian...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
June 1, 2007WEST POINT, N.Y.: Hundreds protest Iraq war, Cheney Denied the right to demonstrate on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy by a federal judge, up to 400 peace activists, including many members of Veterans for...
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New Yorkers rally for affordable housing
June 1, 2007NEW YORK — “When I left New York City in the early ’80s, I paid only $150 a month in rent,” said a Jamaican-born cabdriver who participated in last week’s demonstration here against the city’s growing...
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