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Crash into racism
June 10, 2005Movie review Crash Directed and co-written by Paul Haggis Rated R Distributed by Lions Gate Films In the beginning of “Crash,” the directorial debut of Paul Haggis (he won the Oscar for writing the screenplay for...
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Exposing the machinery of death
June 10, 2005Book review The Death of Innocents: An eyewitness account of wrongful executions By Sister Helen Prejean Random House, December 2004 Hardcover, 336 pp., $25.95 With expectations rising that Chief Justice William Rehnquist will retire at the...
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Mobilizing to fix the media
June 10, 2005Last month, the media activist group FreePress held the second National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis, Mo. I was fortunate enough to attend along with over 2,000 other media activists from across the country....
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Reflections on the debate in labor
June 10, 2005My Mac is about the size of a soapbox so I thought I would use it as such today (May 29). I just took a look at the home pages for the AFL-CIO and then the...
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Totalitarianism: the big lie
June 10, 2005A recent New York Times article by Roger Cohen echoed 1950. Titled “1945’s Legacy: A Terror Defeated, Another Arrives,” the article asserted that communism and fascism were both “totalitarian” monsters and suggested that communism may have...
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