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Students, teachers protest university privatization, tuition hikes
October 5, 2012A new coalition at the University of Oregon rallied and marched Oct. 3 against rising tuition and plans to privatize governance of the university.
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Will Obama again take “Last Capital of Confederacy”?
October 5, 2012President Barack Obama stunned voters here after the results of the 2008 election poured in.
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Detroit increases voting access, defying “tyrants”
October 5, 2012"The right to vote preserves all other rights; tyrants deny people the right to vote," Jesse Jackson told a big voter mobilization rally here Thursday.
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President Obama will establish Chávez National Monument
October 5, 2012President Obama is slated to announce establishment of the César E. Chávez National Monument.
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Court halts Pennsylvania voter ID law
October 3, 2012Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court halted the state's new voter suppression law, ruling today that it not be enforced for the presidential election only five weeks away.
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