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People vs. Profits II wins book award
May 11, 2007NEW YORK — “People vs. Profits, Volume II: The United States and the World,” a collection of columns by Communist economist Victor Perlo (1912-1999), won a Notable Mention in the reference category of the 2007 Eric...
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A sampling of other May Day marches and rallies
May 4, 2007Los Angeles: Well over 50,000 immigrant workers and labor, civil rights and community supporters participated in morning and evening May Day demonstrations calling for legalization of undocumented immigrants and an end to dragnet deportation raids. It...
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First a party, then a death-proof car
May 4, 2007Movie REVIEW Grindhouse Directed and written by Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino Additional directors: Eli Roth, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie Dimension Films, 2007 191 minutes, R After seeing the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double feature, “Grindhouse,” I felt...
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3 words in rap, no more
May 4, 2007Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons said recently the recording and broadcast industries should ban three racial and sexist epithets from all clean versions of rap songs and the airwaves. The recommendations came two weeks after radio personality...
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The IRAs roots and a parable about war
May 4, 2007Movie REVIEW The Wind that Shakes the Barley Directed by Ken Loach IFC First Take, 2007 127 minutes, Not rated It’s a good thing that the feel and backdrop of Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes...
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