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  • Cuba bristles: No to provocations!

    Cuba bristles: No to provocations!

    February 3, 2006

    Beginning Jan. 16, an electronic billboard high on the side of the U.S. Interests Section building in Havana has been streaming words from Abraham Lincoln, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

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  • DREAM Act renews hope for immigrant students

    DREAM Act renews hope for immigrant students

    February 3, 2006

    By the end of this school year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented youth will graduate from our nation’s high schools. Children are brought to the U.S. by impoverished hard-working parents seeking a better life for their families...

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    February 3, 2006

    SAN FRANCISCO: City slams anti-immigrant HR 4437 In what may be the first such action by a U.S. city, the Board of Supervisors Jan. 24 passed a powerful resolution condemning anti-immigrant HR 4437, now on its...

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  • Bush guest worker plan criticized

    Bush guest worker plan criticized

    February 3, 2006

    “I do not believe any guest worker program ought to contain amnesty,” President Bush emphasized at a press conference at Kansas State University Jan. 23. Bush made it clear in extended remarks that harsher enforcement policies...

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  • Black Caucus: Together we can take America back

    Black Caucus: Together we can take America back

    February 3, 2006 By Marilyn Bechtel

    Working together, ordinary Americans can take back the country’s economic, political and human rights agenda, members of Congress told activists and community leaders at a Jan. 28 community forum sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Political,...

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