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Toronto International Film Festival 2002 Part 2

November 27, 2002

Progressive Cinema Documentaries have always carried the connotation of truthful reality. Obviously this is insufficient to describe an art form that has expanded into such new arenas that the original term has almost lost its meaning....

Conference to fight FTAA convenes

November 27, 2002

HAVANA – Over 1,000 delegates from around the world, primarily from the Americas, are gathered here for the Second Hemispheric Conference of Struggle Against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Conference participants came from...

Baltimore City Council hears residents: Stop the War on Iraq!

November 27, 2002

BALTIMORE – Anti-war activists crowded the ornate City Council chamber Nov. 20 to testify in support of a council resolution by Councilman Kwame Abayomi opposing George W. Bush’s threat of 'unilateral, preemptive military action against Iraq.'...

Carpenters union to rejoin AFL-CIO

November 27, 2002

WASHINGTON (Press Associates Union News) – Ending a long split, the Carpenters will reaffiliate with the AFL-CIO on Dec. 1, according to a memo to local councils from Federation Building and Construction Trades Department President Edward...

Civil rights groups blast court nominees

November 27, 2002

Defenders of the Bill of Rights warned that Senate votes to confirm Dennis Shedd and Michael McConnell to the Fourth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeal is part of the Bush administration’s plan to pack the...