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November 13, 2003

WASHINGTON: Al Gore says ‘repeal Patriot Act’ Before 3,000 people in Constitution Hall, Nov. 9, former Vice President Al Gore charged President Bush with “mass violations of civil liberties” and eating away at personal freedoms under...

Media reform movement comes of age

November 13, 2003 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

MADISON, Wis. – As the audience overflowed the 1,800-capacity Orpheum Theatre here last weekend, Commissioner Michael Copps of the Federal Communications Commission told them they were “the most important meeting occurring in America today,” and veteran...

Corporations have their own press, the people need theirs

November 13, 2003

There are six more weeks left for the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo fund drive. Thus far, contributions from 43 states totaling $83,716 have come in from readers who say, “Yes!” to the PWW’s coverage of the...

Diddy runs the City

November 7, 2003 By Chas Walker

The Thrill and the Agony This week in sports by Chas Walker

PWW/Mundo forum hosts Parenti

November 7, 2003 By Kelly McConnell And Jay Johnson

LOS ANGELES – The war in Iraq, like conflicts in which the United States has been engaged for more than a century, is not about spreading democracy but global corporate expansionism, Michael Parenti told a standing-room...