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Valentines Day picket line: No sweetheart deals
February 18, 2005CHICAGO — A new campaign to build opposition in Illinois to President Bush’s Social Security privatization scheme kicked off here Feb. 14 with a picket line at the Charles Schwab Corp. Illinoisans to Protect Social Security...
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Keystone State rallies for mass transit
February 18, 2005HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gray skies and cold driving rain didn’t keep more than 2,000 Pennsylvanians from rallying for permanent mass transit funding in front of the state Capitol here Feb. 14. Demonstrators from all parts of...
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Tyner to speak on fight for equality
February 18, 2005NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Jarvis Tyner, executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and a founder of the Black Radical Congress, will keynote the People’s Weekly World 31st Annual African American History Month celebration in...
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Ossie Davis, 1917-2005: Actor was voice for a movement
February 11, 2005Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement, died Feb. 4 at the age of 87. Davis’ gentle fatherly figure ignited theater...
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Cuban 5 film tours U.S.
February 11, 2005“Mission Against Terror' is a 48-minute documentary directed by Radio Havana correspondent Bernie Dwyer and Cuban television producer Roberto Ruiz Rebo. Dwyer and Ruiz Rebo worked with the families and lawyers of the Cuban Five to...
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