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  • Registering voters at barber shops and beauty salons

    Registering voters at barber shops and beauty salons

    August 20, 2008

    Barack Obama’s historic run for the White House recently announced a strategic and ongoing effort to maximize the African American electorate throughout the country in places where Blacks congregate often: barbershops and beauty salons. The Obama...

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  • Obama will stand by us, say vets

    Obama will stand by us, say vets

    August 20, 2008

    John McCain has developed a veterans problem. In late May, McCain aided a Republican filibuster of the 21st Century GI Bill by refusing to return to the Senate to for a key vote. In fact, McCain...

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  • Bring back the Tree Army

    Bring back the Tree Army

    August 20, 2008

    Celebrating 75th anniversary of Civilian Conservation Corps points to job, education possibilities for today DECEPTION PASS STATE PARK, Wash. — The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) put millions of jobless youth to work planting trees, fighting forest...

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  • Torture victim fights for freedom

    Torture victim fights for freedom

    August 19, 2008 By Pepe Lozano

    Every day Mark Clements prays to God in his prison cell that one day he will be a free man. He has been incarcerated since 1981–27 years–for a crime he says he did not commit. A...

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  • John Rujevcic Gerlach, 1915-2008

    John Rujevcic Gerlach, 1915-2008

    August 16, 2008

    At the ripe age of 93, John R. Gerlach, the former Intelligence Officer of the Legendary 15th Brigade that included the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, passed away on August 12th, in Camarillo, California—having lived a very long...

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