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US needs to act to end discrimination
June 19, 2009Original source: The United Nations special rapporteur on racism has urged Washington to do more to address 'ongoing issues of racism and ethnic discrimination' in the US. Offering recommendations before the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...
Read moreJane Hodes, lifelong activist, founder of Niebyl-Proctor Library
June 18, 2009Jane E. Hodes, a longtime Communist Party member and activist for peace, social and economic justice, died June 6 at the Oakland, Calif. retirement home where she had lived for many years. She was 90 years...
Read moreObama, grassroots groups move to protect consumers from Wall Street
June 18, 2009WASHINGTON — Condemning Wall Street’s “culture of irresponsibility” that plunged the nation into the worst economic crisis in 80 years, President Obama unveiled a sweeping plan June 17 to strengthen bank regulation and protect consumers from...
Read moreNew study calls for action on rising hate crimes
June 18, 2009Leaders of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) held a June 16 conference call to release a new report called, “Confronting the New Faces of Hate Crimes in America.” “Last...
Read moreEconomists, small business owners say health reform key to economic revival
June 18, 2009The idea that the US can't afford comprehensive health care reform during a recession, as pushed by some opponents of President Obama's call for reform this year, is flat out wrong, said a statement signed by...
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