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  • Watch movies? Improve your world: Syriana fights pollution with renewable energy

    Watch movies? Improve your world: Syriana fights pollution with renewable energy

    April 21, 2006

    It’s Hollywood meets MoveOn.org. See a movie — take action. This Earth Day, April 22, you can watch “Syriana” then write to Congress to demand a new approach to energy consumption. Or you can watch “An...

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  • SLAP corporate greed on campuses

    SLAP corporate greed on campuses

    April 21, 2006

    College campuses nationwide are centers for free thought and the exchange of ideas. The research, technology and other developments that universities create are and should be used for the public benefit. But recently, some of these...

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  • Sweeping out the homeless is no answer!

    Sweeping out the homeless is no answer!

    April 21, 2006

    In Los Angeles, civic leaders and business interests decided to employ a policy previously applied in New York — using police sweeps to great effect in cleanup, but with poor regard for rights protection — to...

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  • We need each other

    We need each other

    April 21, 2006

    It is simply amazing that all the newspapers and all the electronic news can be so full of information about undocumented workers while the real issue is never mentioned. The real issue is the effect that...

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  • African Americans have a stake in immigrant rights

    African Americans have a stake in immigrant rights

    April 21, 2006 By Rosita Johnson

    To see thousands of immigrants and their supporters marching, rallying and standing up for their rights is inspiring. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) was correct when she called immigration the civil rights issue of our time....

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