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A gift of survival: Venezuelas Citgo provides low-cost heating oil to U.S. needy
December 9, 2005BRONX, N.Y. — Residents of the Fordham-Bedford cooperative housing project, home to thousands of working-class people, were facing desperate times. Many were unable to pay their electric bills, and their lights were shut off. A desperate...
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Bring New Orleans Back Commission Holds Town Hall in Dallas
December 8, 2005DALLAS - Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission held a town hall meeting here Dec. 6, attracting almost 300 evacuees. The event was one of several planned for cities where large numbers of New...
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Sacramento City Council stands by antiwar resolution
December 8, 2005SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento City Council, in spite of vitriolic testimony by Iraq war supporters and hundreds of threatening e-mails from mostly out-of-town residents, on Nov. 22 refused to back down on a resolution calling...
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Houston activists protest Iraq war
December 8, 2005HOUSTON — On Nov. 19 over 200 Houston activists gathered to protest against the war on Iraq, marching from Market Square to City Hall. The event was sponsored by a coalition of 20 organizations to include...
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Pilgrimage honors deaths in Arizona desert
December 8, 2005TUCSON, Ariz. — Supporters of immigrant rights here conducted an eight-mile pilgrimage from Tucson to San Xavier Mission on the Tohono O’Odahm Indian Reservation to observe the Mexican traditional Día de los Muertos and to mourn...
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