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Education is a right: New Yorkers fight for fair funding
November 10, 2006NEW YORK CITY — In 2001, New York State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse ruled that New York State was in violation of its own Constitution which guarantees every child the right to a “sound, basic...
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Mission accomplished: Labor kicks ass
November 10, 2006Labor’s challenge in this election was to provide the organizing to transform the workers’ frustration and anger into political power, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said at a post-election press conference Nov. 8. It was not only...
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Voters clean house: Rejecting Bush agenda, Americans look for new direction
November 10, 2006WASHINGTON — Fired by anger and disgust with George W. Bush, the Iraq war, corporate greed, corruption and human needs cutbacks, voters went to the polls Nov. 7 and terminated 12 years of Republican control of...
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Oklahoma dreams and nightmares, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
November 3, 2006BOOKREVIEWThe Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town By John Grisham Doubleday, 2006 Hardcover, 368 pp., $28.95 Ada isn’t just the three-letter answer to the crossword puzzle clue “town in Oklahoma.” It isn’t just...
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Defeat the GOP to stop their anti-immigrant drive
November 3, 2006Supporters of immigrants’ rights, who showed their strength by the mass marches during the spring, have mobilized to end the Republican right’s stranglehold on Congress and state governments in the elections this week. In this, they...
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