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A New Generation of Dreamers: Freedom Rides yesterday and today
January 25, 2011A month-long celebration linking the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides that desegregated interstate transportation in the South with today's movements to address racism, violence and unemployment was kicked off here.
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Rotten Apple: iPod sweatshops hidden in China
January 25, 2011Apple, famous for its Mac computers and iPhones, spends millions to create the image of a benevolent corporate giant that, while making money, does more than its part to better the world.
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UN human rights body should be defended
January 25, 2011Like so many other initiatives of the tea party-infused Republican right, the push to leave - and even destroy - the Human Rights Council is wrong.
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Ohio tea party rep needs history lesson
January 25, 2011Tea party leaders and the ultra-right need a lesson in history when it comes to our Founding Fathers who were not only revolutionaries in deed, but many held far-reaching democratic ideas that the tea-baggers would denounce...
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Class battle lines drawn in Chicago council elections
January 25, 2011Chicago City Council elections are shaping up to be a contest between a coalition of organized labor, the many racially and ethnically diverse communities, their organizations and small businesses against the big financial and corporate interests...
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