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State-sanctioned killing is American dilemma
March 29, 2002Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future, by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., and Bruce Shapiro. New York: The New Press, 2001. “Lock ‘em up and throw away the...
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Langston Hughes: Working-class voice for equality, peace and socialism
March 29, 2002Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is justifiably known as the Poet Laureate of the African-American people. He consciously carried on the unfinished equality struggles bequeathed by African-American history and of his own day. Not a poem, story or...
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Philly students:Stop greed! Im not for sale
March 29, 2002PHILADELPHIA – As angry students, parents and community activists chanted “Stop corporate greed” and “I am not for sale,” the School Reform Commission (SRC) voted unanimously March 26 to hire the school privatizer, Edison Schools Inc....
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Right takes aim at county government
March 29, 2002MILWAUKEE – Robert Miranda of the Greater Milwaukee Green Party calls it “a stealth attack on democracy” and a “potential right wing takeover.”
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Public education at stake in Illinois
March 29, 2002CHICAGO – The current economic crisis is having a devastating impact on state budgets across the country. States have an estimated collective deficit of $50 billion. The Illinois budget is in crisis, and the budget cuts...
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