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Cuba signs UN human rights pact
March 8, 2008Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced at a Feb. 28 press conference at UN headquarters in New York that he had just signed two human rights accords originally introduced in the world body in 1976....
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Gloria Freedman, 92
March 8, 2008Union activist, housing organizer, loving mother, stalwart supporter of the People’s Weekly World newspaper and lifelong communist Gloria Freedman passed away Feb. 16 in New York City at the age of 92. Born Gloria Silver in...
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Whitewashing television news
March 8, 2008This election season, there is a glaring — and inexcusable — paucity of Black voices on TV news programs. Considering the historic moment at hand — a world in crisis and the United States facing a...
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A losing strategy to save auto jobs
March 8, 2008Last month my wife and I went to the North American International Auto Show. For Detroiters, this is an annual pilgrimage. Where else can you sit behind the wheel of a $110,000 Maserati when you can’t...
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Letters – March 8, 2008
March 8, 2008Don’t cut afterschool programsThe president’s budget proposal includes a one-two punch aimed right at the heart of afterschool programs. He calls for cutting federal afterschool funding by 27 percent and for reorganizing the current federal program...
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