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February 5, 2004

GREENWICH, Conn.: Bush feels street heat in arctic air High school students sent out the call and 500 showed up to protest Bush as he stopped in to pick up $1,000 checks at a campaign fundraiser....

School of Assassins protesters sentenced

February 5, 2004

FORT BENNING, Ga. – The trials of 27 people arrested here for their November protest of the infamous “School of the Assassins” began Jan. 26 before a federal magistrate. Of the 27 who were arrested during...

Act now to free Marcus Dixon

February 5, 2004

Marcus Dixon is sitting in jail because of racist injustice. Dixon, a Black teenager on his way to college, is instead serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual sex when he was 18 years old...

Patriotism and the left

January 30, 2004

Why is it necessary for the left to examine the concept of patriotism? Because millions of Americans believe in it, cutting across all class and color lines. It will not become possible to defeat George W....

The struggle for the right to organize a union

January 30, 2004

While 45 percent of U.S. workers express the desire to have a union, only 13 percent have one. Using bold, repressive and mostly illegal methods, corporate America has held new organizing to a tiny trickle as...