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Haitian regime aiming to disenfranchise poor

June 10, 2005

With five months to go before elections are held in Haiti, its Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is planning to disenfranchise many voters by refusing to register residents in poorer neighborhoods. CEP President Max Mathurin announced that...

Japanese veterans reach out to China

June 10, 2005

While the Japanese government, under pressure from the Bush administration, continues to step up militarization and threaten other nations in the region, Japanese people have increasingly taken the stage to express a desire for peaceful relations...

Segregation still the norm in Philadelphia schools

June 10, 2005

PHILADELPHIA — In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregation in schools was unconstitutional. It took another 25 years to make any changes in the educational system in some cities, even in the North. The...

Protesters confront Bush at posh fundraiser

June 10, 2005

ST. LOUIS — More than 500 trade unionists, community activists and students protested outside a $2,000-a-plate fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Jim Talent here June 2. President Bush was the fundraiser’s guest of honor. The Republicans’ attacks...

Arnolds problems multiply as election decision looms

June 10, 2005

As the mid-June deadline approaches for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to call a special election, voters are failing to support key issues in his program and his anti-immigrant remarks are further alienating many. An initiative mandating...