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Poems of life, love, work and solidarity
February 28, 2008A Life in Poems By William C. Wright Bird Dog Publishing, 2007 Softcover, 152 pp, $10.00 “Whoever touches this book, touches a man,” wrote the poet Walt Whitman, in his epic book Leaves of Grass. That...
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Poem: To Stand On A Street Corner
February 28, 2008To Stand On A Street Corner (For Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz) To stand on a street corner for just a few minutes, Perhaps to dream about smoking a cigar, Look at the girls as they walk...
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Scapegoats of U.S. executives and endless blood
February 28, 2008Film Review Taxi to the Darkside Directed by Alex Gibney Jigsaw Productions 106 min., Rated R When you grasp the madness that’s exposed in Alex Gibney’s Academy Award nominated “Taxi to the Darkside,” (Gibney also directed...
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Black History celebration looks to the future
February 27, 2008OAKLAND. Calif. — Beneath a bright cluster of black, red, gold and green balloons, history was coming to life. His mostly youthful audience sat spellbound as civil rights movement veteran and retired attorney Jim McWilliams told...
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Edwards joins new antiwar campaign
February 27, 2008Former presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth joined MoveOn.org, the Service Employees union, VoteVets.org and other groups Feb. 25 in launching a $20 million Iraq/Recession Campaign that will target war hawk Republican presidential candidate...
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