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Death penalty key issue in Illinois election

August 1, 2002

This week, scores of state’s attorneys from Illinois’ 102 counties are attending a conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, sponsored by the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation. The purpose of the conference is to hone...

Bush appointee favors concentration camps

August 1, 2002

A statement released by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) on July 22 called for removal of Peter Kirsanow, a Bush appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). Kirsanow, speaking during a USCCR hearing in...

Peace activists demand Justice not war

August 1, 2002 By Susan Webb

CHICAGO – Amid mounting concern about the Bush administration’s threatened attack on Iraq, close to 200 peace activists at Peace Action’s 15th annual national congress here July 27-28 vowed to campaign for “justice not war” and...

Urge Senators to Defeat Priscilla Owen

July 26, 2002

In another nod to the radical right, George W. Bush has nominated Priscilla Owen to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Owen has repeatedly attacked reproductive freedom, workers’ rights...

EDITORIALS

July 26, 2002

Another reason to vote President Bush’s July 22 decision to withhold $34 million from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is another “first.” No other country has ever pulled funding from the Fund, which promotes family...