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  • EPA links greenhouse gases to public health menace

    EPA links greenhouse gases to public health menace

    April 23, 2009

    After eight years of denial by the Bush administration and top congressional Republicans, the US government has finally decided that greenhouse gases, which cause global warming, create air pollution that endangers public health. According to the...

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  • Government report points to rise in hate groups

    Government report points to rise in hate groups

    April 23, 2009

    Original source: Hate groups and right wing extremists are using Americans' concern about undocumented immigration, the current economic downtown, and the election of the first African-American president to gain new recruits, according to a new Department...

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  • ColorofChange urges all to see American Violet

    ColorofChange urges all to see American Violet

    April 23, 2009

    ColorofChange.org, a web-based group dedicated to strengthening Black America’s political voice, launched a grassroots, e-mail campaign promoting American Violet. “Too often, police drug raids in low-income communities across the county sweep up innocent people. Once in...

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  • Drama & diversity — back to basics

    Drama & diversity — back to basics

    April 23, 2009

    CHICAGO -- With four Cuban films and a live appearance by the island’s eminent actor, Jorge Perugorria, a documentary about Chicago-based labor organizer, immigrant rights and political activist, Rudy Lozano, Nicaragua’s Ernesto Cardinal presenting a documentary...

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  • Quiet heroine outsmarts legal gang

    Quiet heroine outsmarts legal gang

    April 23, 2009

    Movie Review American Violet Directed by Tim Disney 2008, PG-13, 103 min.A young waitress devotes herself to raising her four daughters and has hopes, some day, of being able to enroll in junior college. But she...

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