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Drive launched to reverse FCC vote
June 13, 2003The Stop Media Monopoly Petition, a campaign to reverse the FCC’s decision to allow further monopolization of the media, already has nearly 200,000 signers, evidence that Americans don’t want a few big companies controlling their access...
Read moreProtesters denounce Bush Medicare plan
June 13, 2003CHICAGO – A spirited crowd of several hundred people braved the early morning chill June 11, to protest as President Bush arrived here to push what they charge is a phony Medicare prescription drug plan.
Read moreD.C. rally targets 2004 elections: Take back America
June 13, 2003WASHINGTON – Wearing plastic top hats and chanting, “Who needs Medicare? I’m a millionaire!” over 1,000 mock-capitalists marched to Vice President Dick Cheney’s residence, June 6, to thank him for pushing through another trillion dollar tax...
Read moreU.S. agents grill Oakland high-school students
June 12, 2003OAKLAND, Calif. – Parents, teachers, students and civil libertarians are still in an uproar over an incident on April 23 when U.S. Secret Service agents swooped down on Oakland High School and interrogated two male 16-year-olds...
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June 12, 2003BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Prison labor is back With a rising prison population and a state budget crisis, Alabama has been contracting-out people in jail to a furniture maker and a telemarketer. Prison labor, once outlawed, is back...
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