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  • A critical time for immigrant rights

    A critical time for immigrant rights

    May 4, 2007

    May Day demonstrations across the country accelerated grassroots pressure to make legalization and social justice, instead of punitive and profit-oriented measures, the priority in the public and congressional debates on immigrant rights. They also protested the...

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  • Boris Yeltsin and Jenny Lopez

    Boris Yeltsin and Jenny Lopez

    May 4, 2007

    A few days ago, according to Pravda (the former paper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union now specializing in National Inquirer-like gossip), a newly rich 35-year-old Russian billionaire banker, Andrei Melnichenko, paid Jennifer Lopez...

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  • Quote of the week

    Quote of the week

    May 4, 2007

    I stand here just as proud, just as united and just as determined as the workers that stood up in this great city over 100 years ago. Keep on fighting for workers at Comcast and keep...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    May 4, 2007

    Greetings from France The first round of the French elections saw 80 percent of the eligible voters turn out, the highest percentage since 1965. Since 2002, every person turning 18 years old is automatically registered to...

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  • EDITORIAL: The lie that wont fade away

    EDITORIAL: The lie that wont fade away

    May 4, 2007

    Of all the lies the Bush administration used to justify its attack on Iraq, the tale about Saddam Hussein’s regime trying to import uranium from Niger for a nonexistent nuclear weapons program — cited by Bush...

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