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  • Progressive Dems say run to win in 2006

    Progressive Dems say run to win in 2006

    October 6, 2005

    WASHINGTON — Buoyed by their participation in the huge antiwar march a day earlier, hundreds of progressive Democrats gathered for a “grassroots strategy” session Sept. 25 aimed at breaking the Republican grip on all three branches...

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  • White House sit-in: Easy time for a just cause

    White House sit-in: Easy time for a just cause

    October 5, 2005

    WASHINGTON — Air conditioning, pizza with pepperoni, turkey and cheese with lettuce and tomato on rye. Stimulating and fun conversation in the company of peace-loving antiwar activists for democracy and social justice. And last but not...

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  • March on Washington: One Chicago activists account

    March on Washington: One Chicago activists account

    October 5, 2005

    It was an all-night bus trip that brought me to Washington, D.C., for my first march on our nation’s capital. Our caravan of buses left Chicago at about 6 p.m. and we arrived in D.C. at...

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  • Bennetts racist comments blasted

    Bennetts racist comments blasted

    October 2, 2005

    Labor, civil rights leaders and elected officials have blasted former Education Secretary Bill Bennett’s racist comments that he made on his radio program, Sept. 28, and many have called for his show to be canceled.

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  • Festival profile: The Clement Payne Movement of Barbados

    Festival profile: The Clement Payne Movement of Barbados

    September 30, 2005

    David Denny is the director of international relations for the Clement Payne Movement (CPM) of Barbados, a small island nation in the Caribbean. “Our organization is named after Clement Payne, one of the national heroes of...

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