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Quote of the week
June 16, 2006“What you need is a Congress that is not concentrated on tax breaks for the rich, but a government that strives for justice and equality.” Rep. Maxine Waters at the annual meeting of Rainbow/PUSH, June 12.
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LETTERS
June 16, 2006Please deliver a story The strong-legged mail carrier who delivers to our home tells me that things are getting tougher for employees at the U.S. Postal Service. It seems that management has taken to using every...
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HR 676 on election agenda
June 16, 2006“The question isn’t whether we can afford to have universal, single-payer health care; the question is, can we afford not to?” reads the first resolution passed by the United Auto Workers convention this week. The nation’s...
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Guantanamo disgrace
June 16, 2006“No question,” President Bush said June 14, “Guantanamo sends, you know, a signal to some of our friends — provides an excuse, for example, to say, ‘The United States is not upholding the values that they’re...
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Jesús Colón: A Puerto Rican in New York
June 16, 2006Two excerpts from “A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches” by acclaimed author, newspaperman, activist, and communist Jesús Colón (1901-1974).
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