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Medical students rally for universal health care
April 7, 2006CHICAGO — Wearing white coats and stethoscopes, and carrying signs and banners, medical students rallied in support for universal health care here March 31. The students were joined by health care consumers and elected officials at...
Read moreOur children are not for sale: Baltimore labor slams midnight attack on public schools
April 7, 2006ANNAPOLIS, Md. — “They want to turn our schools over to corporate America to operate at a profit. But our children are not for sale!” So said an angry Marietta English, president of the Baltimore Teachers...
Read moreWalkout: Nationwide, thousands of high school students rally for immigrant rights
April 7, 2006NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Students in this small city walked out of class at exactly noon, March 31, to demand immigrant rights, joining a wave of thousands of students doing the same thing in Los Angeles, San...
Read moreU.S. stonewalling on extraditing anti-Cuba terrorist
April 5, 2006There is much that is remarkable about Luis Posada Carriles — accused airplane bomber, wrecker of hotels, murderer, and would-be assassin of Fidel Castro. Even after 11 months in U.S custody, however, the only charge against...
Read moreJanitors, students force U of Miami to talk
March 31, 2006MIAMI — The University of Miami main campus saw action March 28 that would have been unimaginable a few short weeks ago. More than 300 janitors, students, faculty and community supporters stopped traffic on South Dixie...
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