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  • Wisconsin Library Board dismissals criticized

    Wisconsin Library Board dismissals criticized

    May 5, 2009 By American Booksellers Association

    Last week, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression joined with the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Association of American Publishers, and PEN American Center to send a letter to the West Bend (Wisconsin) Common Council...

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  • May Day in Miami

    May Day in Miami

    May 5, 2009

    May Day was reestablished in Miami Florida, with pizazz highlighted by a song sung by the Raging Grannies on Friday as over 300 people representing a broad coalition of labor and immigrant rights groups marched down...

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  • Banks defeat Senate amendment to help struggling homeowners

    Banks defeat Senate amendment to help struggling homeowners

    May 5, 2009

    Original source: Due to stiff opposition from the banking and mortgage industries, the Senate voted against passing (45-51) an amendment Thursday that would have given bankruptcy judges the ability to rework defaulted home mortgages on family...

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  • Legalization is the X factor in immigrant rights

    Legalization is the X factor in immigrant rights

    May 4, 2009

    Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)- Thousands of activists are holding May Day demonstrations nationwide to highlight the rights and needs of the nation's more than 30 million immigrants, who now account for 1-in-8 people living in the United...

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  • South Florida pays tribute to Pete Seeger

    South Florida pays tribute to Pete Seeger

    May 3, 2009 By David Pena

    FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- South Florida progressives and folk music fans turned out in sizeable numbers for a Pete Seeger 90th Birthday Concert held on April 26 at the Ft. Lauderdale Unitarian Universalist Church.

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