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National Clips
December 9, 2005MONTGOMERY, Ala.: Thousands march to honor Rosa Parks Dec. 1 was the 50th anniversary of a simple act by a garment worker, Rosa Parks, who sat down in the front of a Montgomery bus so millions...
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Bush victory ploy flops
December 9, 2005The aggressive White House campaign to re-sell the Iraq war to the American public appears to be dead on arrival. As President Bush delivered his Nov. 30 “strategy for victory in Iraq” speech, a Time poll...
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Secret memo exposes DeLays racist power grab
December 9, 2005Grassroots leaders in Texas reacted angrily to new evidence that Tom DeLay’s redistricting plan rammed through the Texas Legislature violated the Voting Rights Act in carving up the state to insure five additional Republicans in the...
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GOP plays the anti-immigrant card
December 9, 2005President George W. Bush made his first political speech on home soil, Nov. 28, after two weeks of travel abroad and a Thanksgiving retreat at his Texas ranch. The speech followed tumultuous and bitter struggle between...
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Holiday season events raise funds and spirits
December 9, 2005CHICAGO — Amid exclamations of “Opa!” over flaming Greek saganaki, Puerto Rican ballads and “Solidarity Forever,” a packed Parthenon Restaurant hall rocked at the 18th Annual People’s Weekly World Banquet here, Dec. 4. The multiracial, inter-generational...
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