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Hugo Chavez wins in landslide

August 21, 2004

The people of Venezuela went to the polls in record-breaking numbers Aug. 15 and voted by a 58 percent majority against the recall of their president, Hugo Chávez. With several hundred thousand votes yet to be...

Defeat Bush movement spurs mass voter sign-up

August 21, 2004 By Susan Webb

Leaders of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance had a busy day planned for Aug. 21.

Sacramentans demand repeal of parade law

August 13, 2004

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Community activists and civil rights attorneys flocked to an Aug. 2 public hearing here to challenge the legitimacy of a year-old city ordinance that places sharp and seemingly arbitrary restrictions on what parade...

Shifting political winds in Illinois a nationwide trend?

August 13, 2004

The steady erosion of support for Bush’s ultra-right policies led the Kerry campaign earlier this summer to expand the list of potential “swing states” it believed to be competitive. Now there are indications that some congressional...

Letters

August 13, 2004

Unequal school funding In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court addressed only racial segregation, accepting the constitutionally obvious, that U.S. public education must be equal for all. And obviously, unequal funding cannot produce equal...