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Americas future requires strong mass movement, progressives declare
June 2, 2009This is the first of a series of on-the-spot reports from the America’s Future Now conference. Check back for more. WASHINGTON — Thousands of leading activists in progressive organizations have gathered in this city today for...
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Chavez: Under socialism ownership is legal
June 2, 2009CARACAS, June 1 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced a smear campaign aimed at distorting the course of social justice in the process of changes he has led since 1999. The president warned in his...
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Goodbye GM — a letter from Michael Moore
June 2, 2009I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been...
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Cuban Adjustment Act remains off the table
June 2, 2009The Obama administration recently proposed resuming semi-annual talks on Cuban migration to the United States. The State Department referred to “commitment to safe, legal and orderly migration” and to President Obama’s desire “to support the Cuban...
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Women’s group calls for govt. action on ‘domestic terrorists’
June 2, 2009The Justice and Homeland Security departments must prosecute yesterday’s murder of Dr. George Tiller as part of a network of “domestic terrorists and violent racketeers” in a “criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts...
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