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Oakland City Council condemns USA Patriot Act
January 10, 2003OAKLAND, Calif. – In one of its final actions of 2002, Oakland’s City Council on Dec. 17 became the 19th and largest city to issue a sharp rebuff to the USA Patriot Act. The Council’s resolution,...
Read moreDanger: Privatization hazardous to Medicare
January 10, 2003The threat index for Medicare fraud shot up to “code red” when Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) took Trent Lott’s place as Senate Majority Leader. A darling of George W. Bush, Frist is now positioned to ramrod...
Read moreA Green Party victory shakes up Providence politics
January 9, 2003While most of the country was taken over by the far-right on Election Day in November, Providence, R.I., moved in the opposite direction, as David Segal was elected to the City Council from the First Ward....
Read moreSmallpox vaccine: Latest Bush Sept. 11 hoax
January 9, 2003Dr. Thomas Mack, professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, has raised very serious questions regarding the smallpox vaccine assault of the Bush administration’s phony war on terrorism.
Read moreCitizen Action delegates call for health care
January 9, 2003PEORIA, Ill. – “Stand Up! Keep Fighting!” was the theme of Illinois Citizen Action Convention here, Dec. 7.
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