National
A critical time for immigrant rights
May 4, 2007May Day demonstrations across the country accelerated grassroots pressure to make legalization and social justice, instead of punitive and profit-oriented measures, the priority in the public and congressional debates on immigrant rights. They also protested the...
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EDITORIAL: Privatization = 250,000 displaced New Orleanians
May 4, 2007Some 250,000 refugees from Hurricane Katrina still cannot go home, nearly two years after the levees broke. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin led a march April 28 by former city residents...
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Organizing heats up to defend womens rights
May 4, 2007Last November, South Dakota voters overturned a state abortion ban by a 12 percent margin. The April 18 Supreme Court anti-abortion ruling shows the court is “farther to the right than these conservative ‘red states’ voters,”...
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Labors flame still burns for justice
May 4, 2007CHICAGO — August Spies told his executioners that if they went ahead with the hanging they would ignite a fire that could never be put out. He and three other Haymarket martyrs were indeed hanged because...
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On May Day, call rings out for immigrant rights
May 4, 2007CHICAGO — Hundreds of thousands of immigrant rights activists and supporters marched through downtown here May 1, demanding an end to raids and deportations, and calling for comprehensive immigration reform and a path to citizenship for...
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