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  • Dramatic Senate showdown on immigrant rights. News Analysis.

    Dramatic Senate showdown on immigrant rights. News Analysis.

    April 6, 2006

    The Senate debate on immigration “reform” was moving toward a dramatic showdown during the week of April 3, and no one can say what kind of legislation will eventually be passed, or if any legislation will...

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  • U.S. stonewalling on extraditing anti-Cuba terrorist

    U.S. stonewalling on extraditing anti-Cuba terrorist

    April 5, 2006

    There is much that is remarkable about Luis Posada Carriles — accused airplane bomber, wrecker of hotels, murderer, and would-be assassin of Fidel Castro. Even after 11 months in U.S custody, however, the only charge against...

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  • Latin America hears the message: Close the School of the Americas!

    Latin America hears the message: Close the School of the Americas!

    April 5, 2006

    According to its leading U.S. critic, the School of the Americas (SOA) has trained thousands of Latin American soldiers who have been instrumental in the killings, disappearances and massacres that have afflicted the region for decades....

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  • House OKs no permanent bases in Iraq

    House OKs no permanent bases in Iraq

    March 31, 2006

    While the House of Representatives passed $92 billion “emergency” funding mostly for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan last week, it also approved California Rep. Barbara Lee’s amendment that bars permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq....

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  • S.F. march fills Market Street

    S.F. march fills Market Street

    March 31, 2006

    SAN FRANCISCO — Led by hunger strikers, some on foot and others in wheelchairs, who had fasted for a week to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation, thousands of marchers jammed downtown Market Street March 27 on their...

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