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Calls to close Guantanamo fueled by torture memo
April 11, 2008Advocates for hundreds of detainees in George W. Bush’s “war on terror,” many held for years without criminal charges, are escalating their demands for fair trials or release of the prisoners and for closing Guantanamo and...
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28 million surviving on food stamps
April 11, 2008CHICAGO — Human suffering, more than Wall Street indicators, tells us the world’s richest nation is plunging into its most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, while the Iraq war continues to drain the nation’s...
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Week of action unites students, workers
April 11, 2008Imagine a world where everyone who chooses to can go to college. A world where workers on school campuses and in communities have a voice about their working conditions, where the fruits and vegetables that people...
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Record numbers of Americans rely on food stamps
April 11, 2008CHICAGO — Human suffering, more than Wall Street indicators, tells us the world’s richest nation is plunging into its most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, while the Iraq war continues to drain the nation’s...
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Blogging from India #8 — India’s neighbors: South Asia update
April 11, 2008Historic elections in this impoverished Hindu kingdom will take place April 15. The monarchy, which has ruled Nepal for more than 200 years, is expected to be abolished and a parliamentary form of democracy will take...
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