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  • Global call to action: End poverty!

    Global call to action: End poverty!

    February 4, 2005

    PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — From its opening march of 200,000 people — chanting slogans, singing, and carrying banners for an end to war, poverty and inequality — to the nightly rhythms of Brazilian samba, the fifth...

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  • Set the date! Time to bring the troops home

    Set the date! Time to bring the troops home

    February 4, 2005

    WASHINGTON — Citing soaring costs in lives and tax dollars, lawmakers, peace leaders and military families demanded this week that President George W. Bush bring the troops home from Iraq. They rejected Bush’s boast in his...

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  • Hip hop for the people

    Hip hop for the people

    January 28, 2005

    NEWARK, N.J. – Ras Baraka, an educator and deputy mayor of Newark, announced the founding of Hip Hop for the P.E.O.P.L.E. at a recent press conference. Comedian Bill Cosby and numerous hip hop artists and producers...

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  • Si Gerson, 95, journalist and electoral expert

    Si Gerson, 95, journalist and electoral expert

    January 28, 2005 By Joelle Fishman

    Simon W. Gerson, veteran journalist and legendary fighter for working class political representation, died on Dec. 26, 2004 in Brooklyn, N.Y., at 95. A member of the national committee of the Communist Party USA, Gerson’s activism...

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  • Day of Reckoning chronicles lives of Lucy and Albert Parsons

    Day of Reckoning chronicles lives of Lucy and Albert Parsons

    January 28, 2005

    Review NEW YORK — Talented young African American playwright Melody Cooper’s historical drama, “Day of Reckoning,” chronicles the lives of famed anarchist and freed slave, Lucy Parsons, and her husband, Albert, a former Confederate soldier. The...

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