NATO
NATO-week protesters demand end to deportations
May 16, 2012CHICAGO - In the lead up to anti-NATO protests, immigrant rights activists marched on the Immigration Court here May 15 to demand a halt to detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants and their families.
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Afghanistan “strategic partnership” is bad news
April 24, 2012The initialing of a draft strategic partnership foreshadows American military involvement stretching at least a decade beyond the projected 2014 withdrawal of combat troops, and perhaps indefinitely.
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Chicago will be site for Occupy’s Spring
February 29, 2012There's another springtime swirling here in Chicago: the rebirth of the Occupy movement.
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Opposition grows to Emanuel’s attack on free speech, assembly
January 13, 2012Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has created a firestorm by introducing new city ordinances that many say will have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights.
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Libya: NATO sets dangerous precedent
August 24, 2011Rebel troops have broken through to Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The NATO intervention has been decisive, and that should trouble us.
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