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  • Cuban Adjustment Act: still deadly after all these years

    Cuban Adjustment Act: still deadly after all these years

    June 22, 2007

    The Cuban Adjustment Act, passed in 1966, has been used for decades by the U.S. government to manipulate Cuban emigration for counterrevolutionary purposes. Along the way, its provisions that Cubans arriving on U.S. soil gain permanent...

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  • Ohio marchers rally for immigrant rights on Fathers Day

    Ohio marchers rally for immigrant rights on Fathers Day

    June 21, 2007

    PAINESVILLE, Ohio — With raids and arrests of undocumented workers spreading, hundreds of farmworkers held a silent, solemn Father’s Day march and rally in this mid-sized town about 30 miles east of Cleveland. “It is mostly...

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  • Vilma Espn, Cuban heroine, dies in Havana

    Vilma Espn, Cuban heroine, dies in Havana

    June 20, 2007

    Radio Havana Cuba released the following statement on June 19. HAVANA — With profound sorrow, the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban government announce that Compañera Vilma Espín Guillois, a heroine of...

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  • The G-8 Summit and the Provocateurs, or Coming through the Rye

    The G-8 Summit and the Provocateurs, or Coming through the Rye

    June 16, 2007

    BERLIN — Vacationers visiting Baltic Sea beaches in the area have always loved the little small-gauge railroad affectionately called Mollie. But during the G-8 summit of presidents and premiers, Mollie was strictly reserved for those directly...

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  • Essential truths about immigration

    Essential truths about immigration

    June 16, 2007

    The ultra-right inundates us with racist propaganda about undocumented immigrants, making them sound like hordes of barbarians who are invading this country and bringing crime, disease and terror with them. The more progressive politicians try to...

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