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  • EDITORIAL: Immigration hearings evoke bad memories

    EDITORIAL: Immigration hearings evoke bad memories

    June 23, 2006

    The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has let it be known that instead of immediately convoking a conference committee to reconcile House and Senate bills on immigration (HR 4437 and S 2611), they are...

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  • Refusing Iraq  Army lieutenant chooses prison over deploying to illegal war

    Refusing Iraq Army lieutenant chooses prison over deploying to illegal war

    June 23, 2006

    Ehren Watada is a 28-year-old first lieutenant in the United States Army. He joined the Army in 2003, during the run-up to the Iraq war, and turned in his resignation to protest that same war in...

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  • Bush administration failing Americas AIDS crisis

    Bush administration failing Americas AIDS crisis

    June 23, 2006

    A new report suggests that the Bush administration is failing to adequately combat the AIDS crisis in the United States. The Open Society Institute, a public policy research organization, recently released a comprehensive report on the...

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  • Missouri moves for single-payer

    Missouri moves for single-payer

    June 23, 2006

    UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — “Currently 33 percent of every health insurance dollar goes to administration,” said Julia Lamborn, president of Missourians for Single Payer Health Care (MOSP) at a June 7 press conference here. Lamborn announced...

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  • Banner day for Washington health care activists

    Banner day for Washington health care activists

    June 23, 2006

    Workers’Correspondence United for National Health Care and Whatcom County (Wash.) Jobs with Justice held a successful Health Care Day of Action in Whatcom and Skagit counties June 7. During evening rush hour, 70 people participated at...

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