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Blitzkrieg effort to ram new anti-immigrant bills through Congress
September 22, 2006NewsAnalysisThe Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is pushing hard to get HR 4437, Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s vicious anti-immigrant bill which spurred this year’s huge immigrant rights marches, approved piecemeal by the House and Senate...
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Environmental justice tour takes off
September 22, 2006Anniston, Ala., is the first city in the country where the federal government has distributed gas masks to residents living near a chemical weapons incinerator. Gas masks are the government’s solution to the chance that lethal...
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Outrage over Bushs bid to OK torture
September 22, 2006WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush is meeting stiff resistance both inside and outside Congress as he attempts to ram through legislation to permit use of coerced testimony and secret evidence in kangaroo-style military tribunals at...
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WHATS REALLY GOOD
September 22, 2006Students take stand against hate symbol Students from different faith-based groups came together for the first time at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis-St. Paul after a swastika was found painted on a campus sidewalk. More...
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Embrace the Salt of the Earth
September 22, 2006“Salt of the Earth,” the 1954 classic labor film depicting the militant struggle of Mexican American miners against the Empire Zinc Company — a film that was blacklisted and banned by the U.S. government for decades...
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