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Native American Indians get out the vote rez-style

October 8, 2004 By Susan Webb

CASS LAKE, Minn. — Sitting in her tiny office at Leech Lake Tribal College here, Elaine Fleming ran through the get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activities she is helping to organize among the college’s students, faculty and staff.

Coalition registers millions, seeks huge turnout Nov. 2

October 8, 2004

Leaders of the nationwide voter registration movement are reporting that millions of new voters have registered for the Nov. 2 election, breaking records. This has taken place especially in swing states like Ohio, where the determination...

The battle for Congress heats up

October 1, 2004

“I have never considered myself a partisan person, but the Republican Party left me behind, so I had no choice but to leave the Republican Party behind,” Steven Brozak told delegates to the Democratic Convention this...

Nova Scotia OKs same-sex marriage

October 1, 2004

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Nova Scotia became the sixth Canadian province to sanction same-sex marriages Sept. 24 when Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Heather Robertson upheld the Ontario marriage of a lesbian couple living in Nova...

From plains to shining sea The call is ‘Dump Bush!’

October 1, 2004 By Susan Webb

Heartland unionists put in long hours MOORHEAD, Minn. — Standing in a factory parking lot here on a sparkling September day, surrounded by fields of sugar beets, corn and soybeans that stretch as far as the...