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In Colombia, scandals mount and people mobilize
June 1, 2007Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been adamant that 56 prisoners held by the country’s principal guerilla army, the left-leaning Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), would be freed by military rescue operations, not through a humanitarian...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
June 1, 2007WEST POINT, N.Y.: Hundreds protest Iraq war, Cheney Denied the right to demonstrate on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy by a federal judge, up to 400 peace activists, including many members of Veterans for...
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New Yorkers rally for affordable housing
June 1, 2007NEW YORK — “When I left New York City in the early ’80s, I paid only $150 a month in rent,” said a Jamaican-born cabdriver who participated in last week’s demonstration here against the city’s growing...
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Border insecurity rises, as does the temperature
June 1, 2007TUCSON, Ariz. — While Congress debates “tougher security at the border,” the temperature is rising above 100 degrees in the Sonoran Desert. Already 84 bodies have been found along the Mexico-Arizona border, more than this time...
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Honoring the Rosenbergs, celebrating resistance
June 1, 2007In the 1950s, during the height of the anti-communist hysteria led by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, thousands of people, from shop workers to Hollywood figures, became victims during the Cold War’s initial years. Hundreds were...
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