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Poet donates fee to Colombian unions
April 8, 2005The Coca-Cola Co. provided $1,200 to bring poet Martin Espada to Kansas University on March 10. Espada, a Latino poet who has published seven collections, plans to donate the money to a union for workers at...
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Breaking the silence on the war
April 8, 2005PHILADELPHIA — The “Break the Silence Bus Tour” arrived here April 5. The tour, which is dedicated to speaking out for peace, began the day before, on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination,...
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Rallies around the nation
April 8, 2005SAN FRANCISCO: Some 2,000 demonstrators made a human chain surrounding San-Francisco-based Charles Schwab home office March 31. Demonstrators also demanded that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drop his proposal to privatize pensions for all new public workers. Schwab...
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Whats on
April 1, 2005CHICAGO April 2, Sat., 7 p.m. Movie Night: “The Battle of Algiers.” At Chicago’s Unity Center, 3339 S Halsted St. Free, discussion afterwards. Info: (773) 446-9925. April 12, Tues., 7 p.m. “Social Security – Crisis or...
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When men cry: Argentinas factory takeovers
April 1, 2005There’s a moment in “The Take,” a recent Canadian documentary about the Popular People’s Power Movement in Argentina, that really grabs you.
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