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Calif. governor proposes prison reforms
February 16, 2007New prison reform proposals by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have drawn mixed reviews from justice advocates. Signaling a shift in state prison policies that have warehoused tens of thousands of inmates in giant prisons, often in...
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Cuban 5 prisoner gets visit from daughter
February 9, 2007Political prisoner René González, who last saw his almost-9-year-old daughter Ivette when she was four months old, received her on Dec. 30 in a prison visiting room in Marianna, Fla. For six years, the U.S. government...
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Congress may ease Cuba travel restrictions
February 9, 2007Advocates for ending the ban on travel to Cuba are upbeat this year about action in Congress. A December Gallup poll showed that two-thirds of U.S. voters desire normalized U.S.-Cuba relations. The travel restrictions, the most...
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Event showcases radicals in Black & Brown
February 9, 2007I’ve just returned, all energized I might add, from an incredible event sponsored by the Sonja Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The event was called...
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Dont miss these remarkable films
February 9, 2007BERLIN — When I returned from nearly 43 years of McCarthy-induced exile in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), one of my first visits was to my old haunts at the Museum of Modern Art. While...
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