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Parents fight Jebs biased test
July 11, 2003At least 43,000 third-graders and 12,000 high school seniors failed the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) this past May, triggering an angry protest movement by parents, students, and their supporters demanding that Gov. Jeb Bush suspend...
Read moreKucinich vows to challenge monopolies
July 4, 2003ELGIN, Ill. – On June 21, Dennis Kucinich took his campaign for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party into the home territory of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, one of George W. Bush’s closest allies. Speaking...
Read moreBlack Radical Congress charts course
July 4, 2003SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – The Black Radical Congress (BRC) brought together 200 activists at Seton Hall University during the weekend of June 20-22 to discuss “War, Racism and Repression: Confronting the U.S. Empire.” There was full...
Read moreThe power behind the tax cuts
July 4, 2003In a brief period of two years, the right wing ideologues who control the federal government have been able to ram trillion-dollar tax cuts through Congress in 2001 and again in 2003, reduced a budget surplus...
Read moreCPUSA leaders chart anti-Bush fightback
July 4, 2003NEW YORK – An upbeat, fighting spirit dominated the June 28-29 meeting of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA. Fresh from picket lines, demonstrations for peace and justice, and day-to-day work in unions and...
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