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Labor, religious groups defend immigrant rights

January 27, 2006

Labor, religious and civil rights groups are urging that supporters of immigrant rights should focus now on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is likely to begin debate on immigration legislation in February.

Hearings, lawsuit slam Bush spying defense

January 27, 2006

The White House has unleashed a hard-line defense of the Bush administration’s spying on Americans without a warrant, claiming that only “credible threats” linked to al-Qaeda have been under surveillance and the snooping is necessary to...

Kill the bill Coalition fights budget that doles out billions to drug companies, cuts for students

January 27, 2006

The Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities (ECAP), uniting labor, community and low-income advocacy groups, is staging vigils at congressional offices, telling lawmakers to reject a Budget Reconciliation Act that inflicts $42 billion in Medicaid cuts and...

King Day events breathe life into dream

January 20, 2006 By World Combined Sources

Despite efforts to dilute and trivialize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the only national holiday celebrating a people’s freedom movement, the people once again rescued and defended “The Dream” in actions spanning the United States.

Editorial: Young women under attack

December 2, 2005

It is appalling and cruel that anti-democratic anti-abortion forces, including the Bush Justice Department, are attacking the rights of young women, often the victims of rape and incest. On Nov. 30, the U.S. Supreme Court heard...