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Pastors group campaigns for Cuba solidarity

August 26, 2005

You might assume that Pastors for Peace, which is being harassed by the U.S. Treasury Department for delivering humanitarian aid to Cuba, is in a pickle. But the Rev. Lucius Walker, director of the New York-based...

American Indians pull with pride in Elwha

August 26, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — “Paddle to Elwha” brought thousands of Pacific Northwest Indians and their friends to the waterfront of this old Olympic Peninsula mill town Aug. 1 to celebrate the arrival of 76 dugout canoes...

Camp Casey puts Bush on the run

August 26, 2005

Ignites nationwide movement to bring the troops home. CRAWFORD, Texas — Just two months ago, people in this quiet, rural town, population 705, lived their lives in relative anonymity. But thanks to the lies of an...

Televangelist urges killing of Hugo Chavez

August 24, 2005

Pat Robertson, a former GOP presidential candidate and influential figure in the extreme, ultra-right-wing fringe of Christianity associated with such groups as the Christian Coalition, openly called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on...

Good news, bad news on Patriot Act

August 19, 2005

News Analysis By the end of this year, 16 items in the USA Patriot Act were due to expire, or “sunset,” and for more than a year civil liberties activists and administration supporters have been squaring...