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Haddad fights five-month detention

May 10, 2002

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – In a May 1 statement, Muslim clergyman Rabih Haddad charged that his five-month-long detention by the U.S. government is based on “allegations, insinuations, innuendoes and lies.” Haddad, a long-time Ann Arbor resident...

Attacks on immigrants: history repeats

May 10, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

John Tateishi, who spent three years in a U.S. concentration camp from 1942 to 1945, sees a parallel between the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the attacks on immigrants from the Middle...

Billions for war, but not for people

May 10, 2002

WASHINGTON – The May 1 vote in the House Armed Services Committee authorizing a fiscal year military budget of $383.4 billion has drawn sharp criticism from peace and social justice groups who denounced the military-industrial complex...

Lockout at AK Steel: It’s a human struggle

May 10, 2002 By Conn Hallinan

MANSFIELD, Ohio – Scores of solidarity signs were planted along the approach to Hamilton Park, only blocks from the “scab” Armco Kawasaki (AK) steel mill complex here May 4. USWA Local 169 put out the call...

Eyewitness to occupation: Ramallah showcase of war crimes

May 10, 2002

Upon entering Ramallah a few days after the tanks had pulled out of the center of the city, I saw the scars of a viciously coordinated month-long military occupation and destruction of the economic and political...