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Tampa jury rejects terror charges: Demand grows: Free Al-Arian
December 16, 2005The refusal of a 12-member jury in Tampa, Fla., Dec. 6 to convict Dr. Sami Al-Arian of any of the 51 “terrorism” charges against him was another in a string of defeats for the Bush administration...
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Workers rights are human rights: Week of action spotlights labors right to organize
December 16, 2005CHICAGO — “Today I am proud to join workers, community and religious leaders in an urgent call for stronger U.S. and international laws that protect workers’ rights on the job,” Illinois AFL-CIO President Margaret Blackshere told...
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We wont go back!: Ohio unionists rally for human rights
December 15, 2005“We can’t win in the bankers’ court,” Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, told the cheering crowd of over 1,000 UAW workers, mostly Delphi employees, in Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 10. Referring to the...
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Venezuela reaches out to Africa, Caribbean
December 15, 2005On Sept. 30 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez talked about Africa. Interviewed on Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now,” he said, “Yesterday I met with the president of Mozambique. … The life expectancy in Mozambique is 38 years old...
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Art, Truth & Politics
December 10, 2005In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or...
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