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Canvassing voters to promote jobs, justice
August 13, 2004CLEVELAND — “I would walk to the end of the earth to defeat George Bush,” said Elsa Maldonado with passion. In fact, Elsa, known as “Chachi,” did travel about 670 miles from her home in New...
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Contractor probed on Guantanamo deal
August 13, 2004A former division of one of the nation’s largest outsourcing contractors, Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), is under investigation for violating federal procurement regulations because it allegedly supplied interrogators and intelligence analysts to the Defense Department under...
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N. Calif. rallies against nuclear weapons
August 13, 2004LIVERMORE, Calif. — Hundreds of protesters from around northern California gathered here in blazing summer heat Aug. 8 to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to renew their...
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Haitians confront new hardships, repression
August 13, 2004PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of the Feb. 29 U.S.-backed coup d’etat against Haiti’s constitutionally elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian people’s living conditions and political freedoms have sharply deteriorated, eyewitnesses say. Representatives of four delegations...
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A message from the editor. Billiken: Only the best for kids
August 13, 2004Bud Billiken is a fictional character from the creative minds at the Chicago Defender newspaper.
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