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Edison is not the solution

April 5, 2002

The following is testimony delivered to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission on March 26. Good afternoon. My name is Dennis Barnebey. I am a 30-year veteran teacher with the School District of Philadelphia and a parent...

Town Hall meet focuses on welfare reform

April 5, 2002

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – “When the President is planning to increase the work requirement from 32 hours to 40 hours, he better also provide funding for child care,” Lissette Martinez told a Town Hall Meeting on...

Im not a woman, Im a hell-raiser

April 5, 2002

A leader, according to one woman, is a hell-raiser. By that definition, the poor Irish woman born Mary Harris, who became the childless widow Mary Jones, then self-transformed into the organizer Mother Jones, was just that...

Answer to violence: co-existence

April 5, 2002

WASHINGTON – It was a long stride toward peace and justice in the Middle East when the Arab League voted unanimously Mar. 28 for the Saudi peace plan based upon Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories...

Support for Haddad gets results

April 5, 2002

CHICAGO – Detroit Muslim cleric Rabbih Haddad is still in a jail in Chicago, as he has been for more than 100 days. His family is still threatened with deportation, and Haddad himself has still not...