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Urge Senators to Defeat Priscilla Owen
July 26, 2002In another nod to the radical right, George W. Bush has nominated Priscilla Owen to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Owen has repeatedly attacked reproductive freedom, workers’ rights...
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EDITORIALS
July 26, 2002Another reason to vote President Bush’s July 22 decision to withhold $34 million from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is another “first.” No other country has ever pulled funding from the Fund, which promotes family...
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Bush nominee assailed as extremist
July 26, 2002President Bush’s nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals touched off a stormy hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 23 as opponents challenged Owen’s record and...
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New York mourns and organizes
July 26, 2002Commentary New York City is still reeling from the tragic events of Sept. 11. Even though the last remains to be discovered from that terrorist attack have passed by our headquarters on the way to the...
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Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors
July 26, 2002As efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez intensify, two facts are inescapable: the power elite in the United States has never been happy with democratically-elected Chávez, but it took the Bush administration, with its corporate...
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