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Parents, teachers and students unite to fight cuts
March 28, 2008New York — Parents, students, teachers and administrators rallied at City Hall March 20 to protest state and city budget cuts to schools. Despite a driving rain, over 10,000 people turned out for the rally called...
Read moreLabor backs call by medical students for universal health care
March 28, 2008HOUSTON — About 1,000 medical students and their supporters rallied here at city hall March 14 to demand healthcare for all. The event was organized by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) as part of its...
Read moreProtests mark 5th anniversary of Iraq war, 4,000th U.S. troop death
March 28, 2008WASHINGTON — “How many more must die in vain for a lie?” That was the question asked by Joan Kosloff, whose stepson, Sgt. Sherwood Baker of the Pennsylvania National Guard, died in Iraq in 2003. “Congress...
Read moreWORLD NOTES: March 29
March 28, 2008Canada: Troops stay in Afghanistan Canada’s Parliament voted 198-77 on March 13 to back an “Independent Panel” recommendation to continue deployment of 2,500 troops in Afghanistan until 2011. Parliament also demanded that 1,000 additional NATO soldiers...
Read moreObamas call for more perfect union stirs millions
March 28, 2008Barack Obama’s appeal to the people to join in building a “more perfect union” touched a deep chord among millions of voters weary of division and hate peddled by the corporate ultra-right and their Republican agents...
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