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Martina Cruz wins election
November 11, 2005LAWRENCE, Mass. — Community and peace activist Martina Cruz handily won her race for a seat on this city’s School Committee with 65 percent of the vote in the municipal elections Nov. 8. Cruz is also...
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Food stamp cuts would hurt poor, immigrants
November 11, 2005News Analysis Congressional Republicans have gone on a budget-slashing rampage, working to ram through drastic cuts in food stamps and other basic social safety net programs, drawing such wide opposition even some of their own members...
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Hearts and souls captured in the lens: Working people still in focus for Milton Rogovin
November 11, 2005“A Thirty Year Focus on a Community: Photographs by Milton Rogovin” Oak Park Public Library Art Gallery 834 Lake St., Oak Park, Ill. Through Nov. 27 For more information: www.miltonrogovin.com Is there a more sensitive photographer...
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France: racism, poverty lead to violence
November 11, 2005Fires burned across France this week as young people from immigrant families, mainly from North and West Africa, protested life on society’s working-class margins. The crisis began when two teenagers, Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna,...
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North Country rings true to real life
November 11, 2005At the beginning of “North Country,” Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) packs her two children into the pickup truck and drives to her parents’ house in Eveleth, Minn., after being beaten up by her husband. Her parents...
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