Peace
CLUW demands end to war in Iraq
October 26, 2007LAS VEGAS — Some 800 women (and a few men) stomped and cheered as they passed a resolution demanding an end to the war and the occupation of Iraq. They were delegates to the 14th biennial...
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L.A. calls for immediate pullout from Iraq
October 26, 2007LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted 12-2 on Oct. 16 to tell President Bush “to immediately commence a rapid, humane, and complete withdrawal” of U.S. forces from Iraq. Los Angeles is now the...
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More outrage in Iraq, more billions down the drain: It cant continue like this, Iraqis say
October 26, 2007Tensions over U.S. killings of civilians in Iraq received another jolt with reports that American forces killed 17 civilians and wounded several dozen others, including old people and children, in Baghdad’s impoverished Sadr City neighborhood Oct....
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2008 and the Iraq war
October 19, 2007Last week I read a report that U.S. guards employed by a private security company fired into a car carrying four Iraqi people in Baghdad. The driver and a woman in the front seat were killed,...
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N.Y. labor mobilizes to end Iraq war
October 19, 2007NEW YORK CITY — The mobilization for the Oct. 27 peace demonstration here is now in full swing. A significant number of New York-area labor unions have endorsed the action. So far, 15 unions from New...
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