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Chicago labor, clergy lead rally for peace
March 21, 2003CHICAGO – More than 10,000 Chicagoans jammed Daley Center Plaza on March 16 in the largest peace demonstration here since the Vietnam War, to demand that the Bush administration allow United Nations weapons inspectors to complete...
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March 21, 2003ANN ARBOR, Mich.: Marching for equal opportunity / TERRA HAUTE, Ind.: Gulf War vet executed / DENVER, Colo.: Violence begets violence / SAN FRANCISCO: Low-wage workers sue high-fashion brands
Read moreStudents march across state to save education
March 21, 2003ALBANY – What would happen if Gov. George Pataki raised tuition at New York State’s public colleges and universities, cut financial aid programs, gutted opportunity programs, cut the State University of New York (SUNY) and City...
Read moreCities defy Patriot Act
March 21, 2003BALTIMORE – Councilman Kwame Abayomi urged his City Council colleagues to approve his “Preservation of Civil Liberties” resolution directing Baltimore city police not to enforce repressive sections of the USA Patriot Act such as racial profiling...
Read moreNYC council votes against Iraq war
March 21, 2003NEW YORK – Thousands of fire fighters rallied outside New York’s City Hall against proposed budget cuts and station house closings, on March 12, while the City Council passed a peace resolution, making NYC the 140...
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