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  • Groups mount challenge to U.S. travel ban

    Groups mount challenge to U.S. travel ban

    July 23, 2004

    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ninety-plus members of the Venceremos Brigade, the African Awareness Association, and the U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange triumphantly returned July 19 from Cuba to U.S. soil here in defiance of the Bush administration’s recent tightening...

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  • Cuba offers ray of light in cancer battle

    Cuba offers ray of light in cancer battle

    July 23, 2004

    Cancer may have met its match, and the potential breakthrough may have far-reaching political ramifications, as well.

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  • Let Cuba live! End the U.S. blockade!

    Let Cuba live! End the U.S. blockade!

    July 23, 2004

    The National Board of the Communist Party USA released the following statement on July 19. Fifty-one years ago this week a small number of Cuban patriots took history into their own hands and led an uprising...

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  • Iron Range stands up to threat of scabs

    Iron Range stands up to threat of scabs

    July 23, 2004

    CHISHOLM, Minn. – A hastily called rally at the Iron Man monument here July 16 drew more than 800 people in the first show of solidarity against Cleveland-Cliffs’ decision to hire replacement workers at four mines...

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  • Voting, civil rights top NAACP agenda

    Voting, civil rights top NAACP agenda

    July 23, 2004 By Rosita Johnson And Debbie A. Bell

    PHILADELPHIA – The NAACP 95th Convention, held here July 10–15, had the theme “The Race Is On.” Two currents flowed throughout every convention session: voting and defending civil rights gains.

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