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Our children are not for sale: Baltimore labor slams midnight attack on public schools
April 7, 2006ANNAPOLIS, Md. — “They want to turn our schools over to corporate America to operate at a profit. But our children are not for sale!” So said an angry Marietta English, president of the Baltimore Teachers...
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Walkout: Nationwide, thousands of high school students rally for immigrant rights
April 7, 2006NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Students in this small city walked out of class at exactly noon, March 31, to demand immigrant rights, joining a wave of thousands of students doing the same thing in Los Angeles, San...
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U.S. stonewalling on extraditing anti-Cuba terrorist
April 5, 2006There is much that is remarkable about Luis Posada Carriles — accused airplane bomber, wrecker of hotels, murderer, and would-be assassin of Fidel Castro. Even after 11 months in U.S custody, however, the only charge against...
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Latin America hears the message: Close the School of the Americas!
April 5, 2006According to its leading U.S. critic, the School of the Americas (SOA) has trained thousands of Latin American soldiers who have been instrumental in the killings, disappearances and massacres that have afflicted the region for decades....
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House OKs no permanent bases in Iraq
March 31, 2006While the House of Representatives passed $92 billion “emergency” funding mostly for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan last week, it also approved California Rep. Barbara Lee’s amendment that bars permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq....
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