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At town hall, Obama slams healthcare scare tactics
August 12, 2009President Obama counter-punched against ultra-right disrupters, Aug. 11, appealing to a crowd of 1,800 who packed the Portsmouth, N.H. High School Gymnasium to support health care reform that provides quality, affordable coverage for all. Speaking to...
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Health care reform should include immigrants, Latino groups say
August 12, 2009The heated debate surrounding health care reform should not exclude anyone, including legal and undocumented immigrants, civil rights leaders and Latino labor groups say. It’s not right that immigrants leave their home countries for a better...
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Lou Dobbs does it again: calls for firing grow
August 12, 2009The campaign against hate speech was given a fresh impulse when CNN columnist Lou Dobbs used hateful extremist language against Gov. Howard Dean alleging he is someone who is out to advance the ideas of “liberal...
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Limbaughs Nazi slurs draw condemnation
August 12, 2009House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw Rush Limbaugh into a snit when she objected to use of Nazi symbols by anti-health-reform protesters.
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Socialist feminist revival
August 12, 2009I just returned from a workshop on gender-based violence organised by the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Venezuela and the UNDP. Speakers at the workshop included Maria Leon, Minister of Women's Affairs and Nora Casteneda President...
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