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Women making movies: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
March 18, 2005Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologists. Premiering March 12 at the prestigious South by Southwest Film Festival...
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Pentagons hype conceals horrors of war
March 18, 2005Tod Ensign is an attorney and director of Citizen Soldier, a GI and veterans rights advocacy project. With “America’s Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism,” Ensign has written a useful and important guide to the military...
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The most horrific cuts in 30 years
March 18, 2005The following testimony was delivered March 7 at a hearing of the Connecticut State Legislature’s Government Administration and Elections Committee on a resolution memorializing Congress to oppose budget cuts in vital domestic programs. The author offers...
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A question of values
March 18, 2005Ivette Gonzalez, 6 years old and the daughter of one of the “Cuban Five” imprisoned by the U.S., opened the World Social Forum Jan. 26 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The U.S. government has not allowed Ivette...
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A message from Chile: Our Gladys Marn one of the essential ones
March 18, 2005In the wee hours of this cloudy day, March 6, 2005, a woman passed away who was one of the “essential ones,” as Bertolt Brecht said. She was one of those who struggled all her life,...
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