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Peace, peace, peace! Children greet antiwar pilgrimage
March 31, 2006OAKLAND, Calif. — All morning, it was the same. At each schoolyard stop through Oakland’s Fruitvale district, groups of children and teachers gathered outside their classrooms, waiting eagerly to greet the marchers who had walked so...
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Senate panel yields to marching millions but more battles lie ahead
March 31, 2006WASHINGTON — The surging movement for immigrant rights hit Congress like a political tsunami last week, splitting Republicans and pressuring Senate Democrats to fight back against harsh anti-immigrant measures in a hotly contested election year
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Venezuelas quest to empower the poor
March 25, 2006COLUMBIA, Mo. — Nearly 100 students and community activists attended “Forum Venezuela” here March 7 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The forum, organized by the Columbia Peace Coalition, Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Columbia Young...
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OBITUARY: Elsie Dickerson, 88, CPUSA leader
March 25, 2006Elsie Dickerson, longtime chairperson of the Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware district of the Communist Party USA, passed away Feb. 21 after a long illness. She was 88. Her extraordinary life as a communist leader and trade...
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BOOKREVIEW: True family values shine in Cuban 5 book
March 25, 2006Cuban poet Nancy Morejon provides an introduction for this slim volume of letters, poems, drawings, photographs and diary excerpts exchanged between five U.S.-imprisoned men and their family members in Cuba. Readers, she predicts, will cross a...
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