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Cubans exercise grassroots democracy
April 22, 2005Millions of Cubans elected delegates to their nation’s 169 municipal assemblies on April 17. The elections came at the end of a two-month long process in which the people themselves — in the words of National...
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Canadians consider same-sex marriage bill
April 22, 2005VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Liberal government’s long-delayed introduction of a bill to the Canadian Parliament to allow same-sex marriage has unleashed a firestorm of debate. Right-wing forces have poured considerable resources into stopping Bill C-38...
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Palestinians protest Israeli jail conditions
April 22, 2005April 17 was widely observed across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as “Prisoners’ Day,” a day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are languishing in Israeli jails. Thousands of people took to the streets...
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Rising Japanese militarism sparks Asian protests
April 22, 2005Tensions between Japan and its East Asian neighbors have reached a boiling point, with demonstrations against rising Japanese militarism erupting in China, Korea, Vietnam and elsewhere within the past few weeks. A poll published in the...
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At University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz: Students send military recruiters packing
April 22, 2005On April 5 nearly 300 University of California–Santa Cruz students and community allies shut down the annual Stevenson Event Center Career Fair, where recruiters from the Army, Navy and Marines had set up tables. The activists...
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