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  • Juneteenth celebrates emancipation

    Juneteenth celebrates emancipation

    June 14, 2002 By Rosita Johnson

    “Juneteenth,” June 19, is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery in the U.S. On June 19, 1865, Union General Granger and his regiment arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation...

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  • Ashcrofts guidelines threaten Bill of Rights

    Ashcrofts guidelines threaten Bill of Rights

    June 14, 2002

    Attorney General John Ashcroft has just issued new guidelines for FBI surveillance and investigations, which threaten to take us back to the days of J.Edgar Hoover. He has now virtually given absolute power to FBI field...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    June 14, 2002

    Reader to reader response I read Gerald Horne’s critical letter of the review of Michael Moore’s book. I know from being around various left people over the years there is always this criticism of the communists...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    June 14, 2002

    A real plan for homeland security The Office of Homeland Security is the latest in the Bush administration’s rapid-fire initiatives in the name of combating terrorism. It would combine 22 federal agencies into one but neither...

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  • RadFest 2002

    RadFest 2002

    June 14, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    WILLIAMS BAY, Wisc. – Here on the rustic lakeshore George Williams-Lake Geneva campus of Aurora University, about 235 scholars and activists came together May 31 to June 2 for RadFest 2002. The event is the latest...

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