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December 5, 2003CINCINNATI: Police beat Black man to death Nathaniel Jones, 41, father of two, died Nov. 30 after six Cincinnati police officers repeatedly pummeled him with metal batons. Jones was unarmed. Jones was the 15th Black man...
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Pittsburghs broke, but Bush gets cash
December 5, 2003PITTSBURGH – Steelworkers, active, unemployed and retired, from throughout the decimated industrial valleys marched onto the blustery street in front of the Westin William Penn Hotel to join the Sierra Club, civil rights leaders, students, clergy,...
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White House blasted for war on voting rights
December 5, 2003WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is waging war on democracy. That was the message from speakers at a Nov. 22-23 conference on voting rights here. To protect ballot rights and other democratic freedoms, many participants said,...
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Bush plays politics with Iraq crisis
December 5, 2003President Bush’s stage-managed Thanksgiving Day trip to a U.S. military hangar in Baghdad dramatized the extent to which the administration is now handling Iraq as an element in Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.
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Help fuel reportage from the streets
December 5, 2003We are entering the final weeks of our Fund Drive, even as we deepen our links with the mounting struggles of working people from coast to coast.
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