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Forum reports Venezuelas advances
March 31, 2006CHICAGO — The dynamic, grassroots character of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution under President Hugo Chávez was vividly depicted at a forum here March 16 through words, music, slides and photos. The program featured eyewitness reports by Shelby...
Read morePeace, peace, peace! Children greet antiwar pilgrimage
March 31, 2006OAKLAND, Calif. — All morning, it was the same. At each schoolyard stop through Oakland’s Fruitvale district, groups of children and teachers gathered outside their classrooms, waiting eagerly to greet the marchers who had walked so...
Read moreSenate panel yields to marching millions but more battles lie ahead
March 31, 2006WASHINGTON — The surging movement for immigrant rights hit Congress like a political tsunami last week, splitting Republicans and pressuring Senate Democrats to fight back against harsh anti-immigrant measures in a hotly contested election year
Read moreBOOKREVIEW: True family values shine in Cuban 5 book
March 25, 2006Cuban poet Nancy Morejon provides an introduction for this slim volume of letters, poems, drawings, photographs and diary excerpts exchanged between five U.S.-imprisoned men and their family members in Cuba. Readers, she predicts, will cross a...
Read moreThe death of Milosevic and the death of Yugoslavia
March 25, 2006Slobodan Milosevic died recently in his prison cell, tried for war crimes by the NATO states that killed his nation, Yugoslavia, with the bombers and troops they sent to back reactionary separatist forces. Questions continue to...
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