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  • Why you cant sit out the health care fight

    Why you cant sit out the health care fight

    August 7, 2009

    COMMENTARY I was part of a recent Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA) conference call on the mobilization to fight for real health care reform. It was a wonderful, well attended event, chaired by Ed Coyle the...

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  • Moms organize for end to nuclear weapons

    Moms organize for end to nuclear weapons

    August 6, 2009

    Mothers deepen conviction that world is moving towards abolition of nuclear weapons The following is a reprint from Akahata, translated and reprinted by Japan Press, . About 17,500 mothers assembled in Kyoto City last month to...

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  • Japan peace movement: Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons

    Japan peace movement: Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons

    August 6, 2009

    Following is an article published on July 23 by the peace issues team of the Japanese Communist Party’s People’s Movement Commission regarding the 2009 World Conference against A and H Bombs, August 3-9 in Hiroshima and...

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  • POEM Hiroshima

    POEM Hiroshima

    August 6, 2009 By Teresinka Pereira

    On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki....

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  • CD REVIEW Twenty-first century labor music

    CD REVIEW Twenty-first century labor music

    August 6, 2009

    “Dump the Bosses Off Your Back” By Anne Feeney 2008“New Hard Times” By Bill Collins and The Rabble Rousers 2008 Labor music inevitably reflects broader social trends. The ongoing interplay with church hymns and military marching...

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