2009
AIG: It’s obscene
March 18, 2009Gregory Robinson is dead. Shot in a car. He threw himself on a baby in the back seat while the gun fired from an unknown assailant. He was only 14. His family said he died a...
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A peoples victory in El Salvador
March 17, 2009The people of El Salvador made history March 15 by electing Mauricio Funes as the country’s next president. Funes’ election marks a seismic political shift in this war-torn and poverty-stricken nation. Funes, a candidate of the...
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Ohio city backs pension fight: proud to stand with steelworkers
March 17, 2009CANTON, Ohio — The City Council in this steel town last week, in a chamber packed with men and women in union caps and jackets, unanimously passed a resolution supporting the steelworkers’ fight to regain their...
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Health reform forum: Who is going to help this woman?
March 17, 2009DEARBORN, Mich. — “We have an economic crisis and one of the primary reasons is health care. We cannot afford not to reform,” Melody Barnes, director of President Obama’s Domestic Policy Council, told a White House...
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A cure for todays Black depression
March 17, 2009We knew that 2009 would be a historic year, with the inauguration of the first African American president and the deepening of what is likely to be the most serious fiscal crisis since the Great Depression....
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