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Sacramentans demand repeal of parade law
August 13, 2004SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Community activists and civil rights attorneys flocked to an Aug. 2 public hearing here to challenge the legitimacy of a year-old city ordinance that places sharp and seemingly arbitrary restrictions on what parade...
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Cubans assail Bush plans for takeover
August 13, 2004HAVANA — Speaking July 18 to 300 visiting North Americans, Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, discussed the recently released report of Bush’s “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba.” Alarcon reviewed sections of the...
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Haitians confront new hardships, repression
August 13, 2004PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of the Feb. 29 U.S.-backed coup d’etat against Haiti’s constitutionally elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian people’s living conditions and political freedoms have sharply deteriorated, eyewitnesses say. Representatives of four delegations...
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The people are ready to heed the call
July 23, 2004Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul...
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Youth say Books Not Bombs
July 23, 2004NEW YORK – Cinnomin Brothers hopes she can raise enough money to come all the way from Houston, Texas, to the Books Not Bombs Youth Convergence, to be held here Aug. 28. Why is the Youth...
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