U.S.
Obama, 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...
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New 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...
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Economists, 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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Grassroots action: Join us in DC June 25, lobby for quality, affordable health care for all’
June 18, 2009Under the banner “Health Care ’09: We Can’t Wait,” Americans across the country are being urged to get on buses, planes or trains or car pool to Washington June 25, “to lobby every Member of Congress...
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Anti-immigrant suspects in Ariz. killing have ties to white supremacists
June 18, 2009Original source: The recent murders of a Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions and of a guard at the National Holocaust Museum have stoked fears of a rise in right-wing extremist violence -- just as that...
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