Peace
The Freedom Seder: Jewish people and equality for all
April 7, 2006Passover is a Jewish holiday celebrated for eight days in the spring. This year’s celebration begins April 13. The following is excerpted from remarks made by the late Roy Rydell, a working-class hero, former merchant marine...
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Peace is feminist issue, NOW leader says
April 7, 2006NEW YORK — “I don’t expect tens of thousands,” Melody Drnach, National Organization for Women vice president for action told the World, referring to the upcoming April 29 March for Peace, Justice and Democracy demonstration here....
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Latin America hears the message: Close the School of the Americas!
April 5, 2006According to its leading U.S. critic, the School of the Americas (SOA) has trained thousands of Latin American soldiers who have been instrumental in the killings, disappearances and massacres that have afflicted the region for decades....
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House OKs no permanent bases in Iraq
March 31, 2006While the House of Representatives passed $92 billion “emergency” funding mostly for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan last week, it also approved California Rep. Barbara Lee’s amendment that bars permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq....
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S.F. march fills Market Street
March 31, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — Led by hunger strikers, some on foot and others in wheelchairs, who had fasted for a week to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation, thousands of marchers jammed downtown Market Street March 27 on their...
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