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  • ACLU: Patriot Act must go

    ACLU: Patriot Act must go

    August 8, 2003

    DETROIT, Mich. – “We know from our clients that the FBI is once again targeting ethnic, religious, and political minority communities disproportionately,” says Ann Beeson, associate legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and member...

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  • Big stakes in Calif. recall

    Big stakes in Calif. recall

    August 8, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    LOS ANGELES – The effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis involves more than the fate of a Democratic governor. At stake is the future political direction not only of California but our nation.

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  • Protest message to White House: More jobs, less bull

    Protest message to White House: More jobs, less bull

    August 8, 2003

    CHICAGO – As George W. Bush settles into his Crawford ranch for his carefree, month-long vacation, working families are saddled with worries about jobs, health care and the state of the economy. Over three million jobs...

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  • Victory against lead poisoning in NYC

    Victory against lead poisoning in NYC

    August 7, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    In the early 1980s, public health, children’s advocates and pro-people politicians won passage of a law that required the elimination of all lead-based paint, where it exists, in New York City residential housing. It was known...

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  • Soldier misses Texas

    Soldier misses Texas

    August 7, 2003

    In North Texas, we worry about Sal, our soldier friend in Iraq. So far the silent periods haven’t meant any of the horrible things we imagined, and we got another message from him last week. I...

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