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Virginia students sit in, 17 arrested in solidarity with campus workers for living wage
April 21, 2006Seventeen University of Virginia students were arrested on the Charlottesville campus April 15 because they staged a four-day sit-in at the university president’s office. The students demanded the administration accept its “moral responsibility” and commit to...
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Chicago City Council passes law protecting immigrants
April 21, 2006The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance March 29 that forbids police and other city employees from participating in the witch-hunt against undocumented immigrants that has been whipped up by the Republican far right. Under the...
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Thousands march for immigrant rights in San Antonio
April 20, 2006SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio School District students walked out of classes April 10 along with students from Alamo District to protest the immoral Sensenbrenner bill, HR 4437, which would criminalize many immigrants as “illegals” and...
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We thought it was oil, But it was blood
April 14, 2006The other day We danced in the street Joy in our hearts We thought we were free Three young folks fell to our right Countless more fell to our left Looking up, Far from the crowd...
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Was Barry Bonds targeted?
April 14, 2006Of all the bulked-up major league baseball players suspected of using steroids in the mid-to-late 1990s, how is it that Barry Bonds, baseball’s pre-eminent Black player, came to be Target No. 1 of federal investigators? Is...
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