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May Day call in D.C.: Amnesty now!
May 3, 2002WASHINGTON – Busloads of workers and their allies arrived in the nation’s capital, May Day, to demand that Congress enact HR-500, a bill by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) to grant legal status to millions of undocumented...
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To Cuba and back: Harassment from Washington, followed by a week of inspiration
May 3, 2002Thirteen Maine teachers and health workers returned April 21 after a week-long study tour in Cuba. They were there looking at schools, clinics, hospitals and services for children, to find out what happens to egalitarian ideals...
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Church leaders condemn Jenin destruction
May 3, 2002JENIN, West Bank – Despite Israeli government success in blocking a United Nations fact-finding team, eyewitness reports from international religious groups and other observers tell of massive destruction at the Jenin refugee camp. Fifty bodies have...
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Nepal faces Maoist and state violence
May 3, 2002“All the democratic forces will have to be united to fight both the Maoists and the reactionaries,” Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal – Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), told The Himalaya...
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The French elections: A conversation with journalist Henri Alleg
May 3, 2002Henri Alleg is a widely known French journalist who joined the Algerian resistance against French colonialism as a youth in 1941, for which he spent five years in prison. He has traveled widely in the U.S....
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