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Rosa Parks: courageous fighter for justice
November 11, 2005Commentary On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Louise Parks, like all Black people who traveled by public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., boarded the front door of the metropolitan bus and paid her fare to the driver. Then...
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Anti-Wal-Mart film makes nationwide grassroots splash
November 11, 2005Predicted as the largest ever grassroots-based film release, the documentary “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” is set to open at 7,000 locations around the country Nov. 13-19. Wal-Mart executives, apparently terrified of the new...
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Gulf Coast update
November 11, 2005Shoddy levees may spur legal action Louisiana prosecutors are investigating the failure of the levees around New Orleans to determine if bungled engineering and construction of the flood protection system warrants legal action. Corrupt contractors and...
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DeLay whipping up judicial circus
November 11, 2005HOUSTON — Texas played musical judges in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s (R-Texas) criminal conspiracy case, as a DeLay-promoted judicial circus unfolded. First in a dizzying rapid-fire change of judges, state district Judge Bob Perkins,...
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Lawmakers push for Iraq exit in 2006
November 11, 2005With George W. Bush increasingly isolated, the antiwar movement this week demanded that Congress act to bring the troops home or face ouster in next year’s congressional elections. Scott Lynch, a spokesman for Peace Action, cited...
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