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Conyers speaks about reparations
February 8, 2002ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) talked of the “legitimacy and the necessity of the study of reparations” for the enslavement of African Americans in a speech at the University of Michigan last week....
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Pediatricians support adoptions by gays
February 8, 2002CHICAGO – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), an organization of 55,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists, said in a news realease Jan. 30 that children who are born to, or...
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Bushs war on poor attacks Medicaid
February 8, 2002President Bush and the Congressional right wing are planning to fund their war budget at the expense of poor people. As a result of increasing unemployment, continued recession and the lingering effects of the World Trade...
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Carousel strikers take on corporate giant
February 8, 2002NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. – On Feb. 1 Carousel Linen strikers and 100 supporters rallied across the street from the sprawling industrial complex of global pharmaceutical monopoly, Abbott Laboratories. Abbott is Carousel’s last remaining large client and...
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New Mexico teachers:Today is the rainy day
February 8, 2002SANTA FE, N.M. – Nearly 2,000 union members and community activists took to the streets here Feb. 2 as part of the biggest New Mexico Jobs Day demonstration ever. Since the strident anti-labor Governor Gary Johnson...
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