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  • Mentally ill lose out

    Mentally ill lose out

    January 20, 2006

    Disabled suffer irreparable harm after losing access to vital medications under new privatized prescription drug plan I work in the field of mental health, and have managed or worked at group homes for people with psychiatric...

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  • The housing bubble

    The housing bubble

    January 20, 2006

    The “Wal-Mart, low-wage, limited-benefit” stage of the U.S. economy is built on a foundation of unsustainable increases in debt: household debt, corporate debt, and government debt. The January 2001 tax cuts directed toward the rich, combined...

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  • Venezuela lends a hand  in Maine

    Venezuela lends a hand in Maine

    January 20, 2006

    “This is not about politics. This is about improving the lives of poor people. This is about people helping people.” That was Felix Rodriguez, CEO of Citgo Petroleum Corp., speaking in the small town of Windham,...

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  • Wheelchaired activists demand access rights

    Wheelchaired activists demand access rights

    January 20, 2006

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Street theater drew the attention of passers-by to a demonstration Jan. 13 by 45 wheelchaired people and their supporters protesting the launching of an initiative that would deny access rights to Californians with...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    January 20, 2006

    India: Activists protest toxic waste ship The decommissioned French aircraft carrier “Clemenceau,” which saw duty during the 1991 Gulf War, is on its way to the Alang scrap yard in Gujarat, India, where workers are to...

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