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  • Campaign launched to honor Benjamin Davis

    Campaign launched to honor Benjamin Davis

    October 28, 2005

    NEW YORK — Benjamin Davis, the Communist city councilor from Harlem who was removed from the council and imprisoned during the McCarthy period, was finally honored nearly 60 years later at an overflow meeting in Harlem’s...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    October 28, 2005

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Conyers calls for universal health care Over 50 health care professionals and community leaders jammed Carver Theater Oct. 22 to launch a grassroots movement to enact universal health care legislation. Keynote speaker Rep. John...

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  • Bay Area school workers fight for contracts

    Bay Area school workers fight for contracts

    October 28, 2005

    SAN FRANCISCO — School workers and teachers here and across the bay in Oakland are ramping up their struggle in long and difficult contract talks. A sea of colorful T-shirts — blue for United Educators of...

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  • Public outcry blocks GOP budget cuts

    Public outcry blocks GOP budget cuts

    October 28, 2005

    Massive public pressure forced the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to abruptly delay action last week on major slashes in human services programs. The slashes, contained in a budget amendment, would have increased mandatory...

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  • Grandmothers sit in to end war

    Grandmothers sit in to end war

    October 28, 2005

    NEW YORK — Eighteen grandmothers tried to enlist in the Army here Oct. 17, and were arrested for disorderly conduct after staging a sit-in. When the grandmothers, ranging in age from 60 to 90, found that...

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