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Bring New Orleans Back Commission Holds Town Hall in Dallas
December 8, 2005DALLAS - Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission held a town hall meeting here Dec. 6, attracting almost 300 evacuees. The event was one of several planned for cities where large numbers of New...
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Sacramento City Council stands by antiwar resolution
December 8, 2005SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento City Council, in spite of vitriolic testimony by Iraq war supporters and hundreds of threatening e-mails from mostly out-of-town residents, on Nov. 22 refused to back down on a resolution calling...
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Houston activists protest Iraq war
December 8, 2005HOUSTON — On Nov. 19 over 200 Houston activists gathered to protest against the war on Iraq, marching from Market Square to City Hall. The event was sponsored by a coalition of 20 organizations to include...
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Pilgrimage honors deaths in Arizona desert
December 8, 2005TUCSON, Ariz. — Supporters of immigrant rights here conducted an eight-mile pilgrimage from Tucson to San Xavier Mission on the Tohono O’Odahm Indian Reservation to observe the Mexican traditional Día de los Muertos and to mourn...
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U.S. bends law to deny justice to Cuban 5
December 2, 2005Routine administrative and legal procedures are often subject to manipulation, never more so than when Cuba’s enemies manipulate them. The misuse of accepted procedures is seen in the continuing persecution of five Cuban men and members...
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