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Haitian priest rebuffs govt frame-up
November 19, 2004A Haitian judge has rejected government charges that imprisoned Father Gerard Jean-Juste, a Roman Catholic priest and pro-democracy activist, was responsible for importing weapons and inciting recent violence in Haiti. Police arrested and manhandled Jean-Juste, a...
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Colombia deports 4 unionists
November 19, 2004Aidan White, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, condemned the Colombian government last week for deporting four senior international trade unionists from the international airport in Bogotá in early November. “In a country where...
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Call to stop IRS probe of NAACP
November 19, 2004WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has asked President Bush to “call off the dogs at the IRS” by terminating the tax agency’s probe of the NAACP. Rangel co-signed an Oct. 29 letter to IRS Commissioner...
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Every day were in Iraq, situation gets worse
November 19, 2004In the wake of the U.S. assault on Fallujah, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, called for investigation of possible violations of international laws on treatment of civilians and war prisoners in...
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No quick fixes
November 12, 2004Opinion A major tactic of the ultra-right over the last four years was courting the religious right, the “evangelical” crowd, pouring our tax money into both Black and white churches under the pretext that they are...
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