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HUD Sends New Orleans Bulldozers and $400,000 Apartments for the Holidays
December 5, 2007On the 12th day before Christmas, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning to unleash teams of bulldozers to demolish thousands of low-income apartments in New Orleans. Despite Katrina causing the worst...
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Columbus janitors win union
December 4, 2007COLUMBUS, Ohio—Coming on the heels of organizing victories in Cincinnati and Houston, some 1,200 janitors here, organizing with SEIU, won contracts with nine of the city’s largest employers last month. “This is a historic victory,” said...
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Michigan rally to protest hate crime
December 1, 2007DETROIT — It’s “preposterous” to say that the hanging of nooses may not constitute a hate crime, charged the Rev. David Bullock of the National Council for Community Empowerment at a Nov. 27 press conference of...
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Build Oakland for everyone, say residents
November 30, 2007OAKLAND, Calif. — Over 400 residents here came together Nov. 17 to project their vision of economic development — a vision featuring well-paying jobs, affordable housing, a healthy and safe environment, and steps to overcome the...
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Marchers protest racism, police brutality
November 30, 2007WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the Justice Department on Nov. 16 and at a concert the next day protested the Bush administration’s refusal to crack down on hate crimes and racist police brutality sweeping the nation.
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