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Colombian political prisoner holds Bush prosecutors at bay
December 6, 2006An extraordinary trial, remarkable among other things for a novel legal doctrine unveiled by the Bush administration during the course of it, ended as a mistrial Nov. 21 in Washington. The jury could not reach a...
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Oakland Airport workers rally for union rights
December 2, 2006OAKLAND, Calif. — In a pre-Thanksgiving outpouring of solidarity, over 200 union and community activists gathered at Oakland International Airport Nov. 22 to demand union rights and fair treatment for workers who provide Southwest Airlines passengers...
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Film exposes deadly war profiteering in Iraq
December 1, 2006MOVIE REVIEWDirector and producer Robert Greenwald, whose previous films include progressive documentaries such as “Outfoxed” (about Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News) and “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” has brought us an extremely important movie with...
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Play reveals struggles of South Asian women
December 1, 2006NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In response to Eve Enseler’s feminist “Vagina Monologues,” a series of theatrical vignettes on the theme of contemporary women’s gender and social oppression, South Asian Sisters, a California-based group, developed “Yoni Ki...
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Q&A about Iraq Iraqi Communist Party viewpoint
December 1, 2006How do Iraqi Communists view the upsurge of violence in Iraq? There are a number of important interacting factors here. The recent upsurge of violence, which has taken a sectarian form, has been in essence a...
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