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Let Cuba live! End the U.S. blockade!

July 23, 2004

The National Board of the Communist Party USA released the following statement on July 19. Fifty-one years ago this week a small number of Cuban patriots took history into their own hands and led an uprising...

Voting, civil rights top NAACP agenda

July 23, 2004 By Rosita Johnson And Debbie A. Bell

PHILADELPHIA – The NAACP 95th Convention, held here July 10–15, had the theme “The Race Is On.” Two currents flowed throughout every convention session: voting and defending civil rights gains.

Labor organizes to protect 2004 vote

July 23, 2004

MILWAUKEE – About 50 people gathered at the headquarters of the Milwaukee AFL-CIO County Labor Council July 10 for a four-hour training session on voter rights. The training was headed by Shiela Cochran, secretary-treasurer of the...

GI Rights Hotline answers soldiers calls

July 23, 2004

The reality of war has the phones ringing. As the death toll of U.S. forces since the start of the war rose to 900 this week, and the Bush administration’s rationale for war lies shredded by...

Letters

July 16, 2004

My soldier son opposes this war I have a son in the National Guard who was supposed to get out in June of this year, and there is a stop loss order for his unit just...