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1,500 Indian farmers commit mass suicide: Why we are complicit in these deaths
April 18, 2009(Reposted from www.alternet.org) The headline has been hard to ignore. Across the world press, news media have announced that over 1,500 farmers in the Indian state of Chattisgarh committed suicide. The motive has been blamed on...
Read moreTexas governor threatens secession
April 18, 2009HOUSTON – Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has threatened secession from the union. “Texas is a unique place,” Perry declared. “When we came into the Union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would...
Read moreEnd the Cuban embargo, congressman says
April 18, 2009CHICAGO – Nearly 100 people gathered at the Adalberto United Methodist Church April 14, on the city’s north side, to hear Congressman Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) debrief on his recent trip to Cuba. Leaders from Chicago’s...
Read moreRacial gap is widening, equality advocates warn
April 18, 2009Racial inequality is widening in the current economic crisis, leaders of social justice groups warned in a national phone forum this week. Under the theme “Race and Recession,” the Compact for Racial Justice forum, April 14,...
Read moreJudith Krug, librarian, tireless advocate for First Amendment rights, dies
April 18, 2009CHICAGO — Judith Fingeret Krug, 69, the long-time director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, who fought censorship on behalf of the...
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