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Mark Gruenberg, 04/09/2006
Unionists and their allies expected to lead mass protests in more than 65 cities nationwide for immigrants’ rights – including more than 100,000 jamming the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol – on April 10.
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Rainbow/Push Coalition, 04/07/2006
Katrina survivors demand and deserve the right to reconstruction, and first priority on jobs, job training and contracts.
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David Bacon, 04/07/2006
Senators will pat themselves on the back this week, for agreeing to their most pro-corporate, anti-immigrant bill in decades. Tens of thousands of people may be forced to leave the US as a result.
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Joel Wendland, 04/05/2006
Republican loyalists and officials have sought to spread an anti-gay message in African American churches in order to convince Black voters to "come back home" to the Republican Party.
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babae, 04/04/2006
babae joins millions of people across the U.S. in denouncing the Sensenbrenner Bill (HR 4437) and additional legislation proposed by Senators Arlen Specter and Bill Frist that threaten civil liberties and human rights.
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Joel Wendland, 04/03/2006
Are you like me? Do you sometimes think that if you ignore something – a toothache, the credit card company or the leaky faucet – it will just stop being a problem?
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David Zirin, 04/01/2006
Is Barry Bonds the object of a racist witch-hunt? Over the last week I have had to publicly argue this issue against some of the finest minds of my generation (all right, John Rocker and Jose Canseco).
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Rosalio Muñoz, 03/30/2006
The over half a million immigrants rights supporters who rallied in Los Angeles March 25 sent their fellow American people, and their government a clear message: We are Americans, we are workers who build up this economy and society, we are not terrorists nor criminals, we deserve justice and equality with legalization!
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Michael Lettieri, 03/30/2006
Rarely have U.S.-Mexican relations received the sort of public scrutiny that the currently raging immigration debate is now attracting.
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David Bacon, 03/29/2006
Hunger strikers and supporters, two of them in wheelchairs, headed a march of 5000 people in San Francisco, protesting bills in the US Congress which would criminalize immigrant status and violate the rights of immigrants.
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Joelle Fishman, 03/28/2006
As the light of day exposes their ugly corruption and decay, the Bush far-right cabal is moving even more strenuously and quietly to establish the structures that can be used to carry on their corporate agenda no matter who wins the election.
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Political Affairs, 03/28/2006
I think the big advantage we have now in scholarship on race in the last several decades is that we get to start from the fact that it’s a biological fiction.
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Pride at Work, 03/19/2006
Pride At Work, AFL-CIO is disappointed, though not surprised, by the boycott the American Family Association has instigated against Ford Motor Co.
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civilrights.org, 03/15/2006
In a setback for Ward Connerly and his so-called Michigan "Civil Rights" Initiative (MCRI), a new statewide poll released Thursday shows diminishing support for the initiative among Michigan voters.
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David Bacon, 03/07/2006
Equality has become an unmentionable word in Congress. It doesn't come even once in the 300-page omnibus immigration bill introduced last week by Senator Arlen Specter.
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Gene C. Gerard, 03/07/2006
In the wake of the successful confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, President Bush has re-nominated Brent Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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Sam Webb, 03/03/2006
The struggle against racism is not simply a subset of the many-layered and interconnected struggle for democracy, but the most important element of these struggles.
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Norman Markowitz, 02/28/2006
There is of course another way. We can draw upon our history and traditions to really create a great society for our people, where the wealth of the nation is organized to achieve social justice and equality, not to deepen inequality.
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David Swanson, 02/26/2006
A march had been planned for February 28, the eve of the scheduled March 1 evictions of Hurricane Katrina victims.
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CPUSA, Education Commission, 02/21/2006
Racism is not simply one group of people thinking badly about another...racism is not just an attitude, not just a feeling or a prejudice. Instead, racism is materially rooted in the institutional structures of our society.
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