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‘The end of the occupation begins in Crawford, Texas’
August 18, 2005CRAWFORD, Texas – Cindy Sheehan rode down to President Bush’s Crawford ranch last weekend on a Veterans For Peace bus after the veterans’ national convention in Dallas. Since then she has maintained a vigil outside Bush's...
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Sudanese vow to safeguard peace accord
August 18, 2005CARACAS, Venezuela — Sudanese delegates held a workshop Aug. 11 at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students here. Titled “Civil war, democracy and the peace process in Sudan,” the workshop updated festival delegates on...
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Civil liberties group sues N.Y. police on transit searches
August 16, 2005NEW YORK — The New York Police Department’s new policy, in response to the July terrorist bombings in London, of randomly searching the bags of anyone on the subway, has brought turmoil to the city. The...
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Further cuts proposed for King-Drew hospital
August 12, 2005LOS ANGELES — Less than six months after closing the trauma center at the Martin Luther King Jr./Charles Drew Medical Center (KDMC), the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is considering even more cuts in the hospital’s...
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Reggae, art and politics: The revolutionary poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson
August 12, 2005Author, founder of Dub poetry, former Black Panther and presently art editor of the journal Race Today, Linton Kwesi Johnson became the first Black poet and the second living poet to be included in Penguin Books’...
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