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  • Iraqis condemn U.S. colonialism

    Iraqis condemn U.S. colonialism

    August 31, 2007 By Susan Webb

    President Bush plans to ask Congress for $50 billion this month to continue funding the Iraq war, the Washington Post reports. But meanwhile, Iraqi Communists charge, “The Americans are doing everything they can to prevent Iraqis...

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  • World figures attend Cuban 5 hearing

    World figures attend Cuban 5 hearing

    August 31, 2007

    An international gathering of 75 jurists, attorneys and supporters was on hand in Atlanta Aug. 20 for the latest appeals hearing on behalf of Gerardo Hernández, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González. On...

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  • Community rallies around N.Y. civil rights lawyer

    Community rallies around N.Y. civil rights lawyer

    August 31, 2007

    NEW YORK — Two months after civil rights lawyer Michael Tarif Warren and Evelyn Warren, his wife, were beaten and then arrested for speaking up during a police brutality incident in Brooklyn, a diverse crowd of...

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  • Clean up that truck pollution, coalition urges

    Clean up that truck pollution, coalition urges

    August 31, 2007

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Environmental, labor, faith and community groups are stepping up efforts to make sure the air quality improvement plan now being drafted by the Port of Oakland does enough to clean up pollution from...

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  • NYC taxi drivers prepare to strike

    NYC taxi drivers prepare to strike

    August 31, 2007

    NEW YORK — Yellow taxicab drivers here are prepared to strike if the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) continues to refuse to negotiate with them about sweeping changes they are imposing on the city’s 44,000 drivers....

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