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Howard Zinn: people’s historian

January 28, 2010 By Norman Markowitz

Howard Zinn died yesterday but he will live on, as future generations read his A Peoples History of the United States and say "Wow!"

Officials covered up deaths of detained immigrants

January 28, 2010

Recently obtained documents, memos and videos suggest government officials systematically covered up malicious abuses contributing to the deaths of 107 immigration detainees

Rallies demand strong health care bill

January 28, 2010 By Marilyn Bechtel

On the eve of President Obama's first State of the Union address, people in over 130 communities around the country rallied at Congressional offices Jan. 26.

Rep. Larson’s office greets emergency rally for health care

January 28, 2010 By Tom Connolly

Over 100 determined people attended an emergency rally Tuesday to save national health care reform. The gathering marched outside the office of Representative John Larson.

Lawsuit charges Border Patrol with harassing Latinos

January 28, 2010

The U.S. Border Patrol and law enforcement agencies in northwest Ohio restrain and interrogate Latinos about their immigration status based solely on their Hispanic appearance, a lawsuit filed by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee charges.