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  • Forum urges probe of FBI raids in Puerto Rico

    Forum urges probe of FBI raids in Puerto Rico

    March 3, 2006

    NEW YORK — Recent tactics of the FBI, which include military-style assaults and home raids on people in Puerto Rico who favor independence — as well as the pepper spraying of journalists — have provoked public...

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  • Palestinians face punishment for election choice

    Palestinians face punishment for election choice

    March 3, 2006

    NewsAnalysis The victory of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, in the Palestinian legislative elections Jan. 25 has precipitated a new stage in the U.S.-Israeli policy of doling out short rations to the Palestinian Authority so as...

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  • Illinois school agency backs immigrant students

    Illinois school agency backs immigrant students

    March 3, 2006

    ELMWOOD PARK, Ill. — The school board in this western suburb of Chicago achieved national notoriety last week in a case involving its denial of the right of an immigrant youth to enroll in its high...

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  • In Texas and California: Demonstrators demand defeat of anti-immigrant bill

    In Texas and California: Demonstrators demand defeat of anti-immigrant bill

    March 3, 2006

    Some 1,500 demonstrators marched from Houston’s Galleria shopping center to Grady Park Feb. 26 in a “March for Dignity and Respect” opposing Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s (R-Wis.) virulently anti-immigrant HR 4437, many provisions of which are included...

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  • NATIONALCLIPS

    NATIONALCLIPS

    March 3, 2006

    ST. PAUL, Minn.: ‘Public services not for sale’ Hundreds of state workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), clogged the halls of the State House March 1, lobbying to prevent...

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