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Who is a patriot?
November 16, 2007I attended the United for Peace and Justice demonstration in New Orleans on Oct. 27, which called for an end to the Iraq war, opposed military aggression against Iran and supported the long overdue rebuilding of...
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LETTERS: November 17
November 16, 2007Celebrating revolution The 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution was celebrated Nov. 7 across Russia and (left) in Moscow with a march and rally of 25,000 people. The crowd listened as speakers commemorated the achievements...
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EDITORIAL: Pilgrims without papers
November 16, 2007Three hundred and eighty-six years ago a group of undocumented immigrants and native-born Americans feasted together for three days to celebrate a successful harvest made possible by mutual cooperation. Yes, those Pilgrims showed up in Massachusetts...
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EDITORIAL: Costs of racism
November 16, 2007An important part of what is often called “the American dream” is the ability of successive generations to climb the economic ladder. With workers’ productivity rising decade by decade, that should be the reality for working-class...
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Two tales of one city: First the death, now the resurrection
November 16, 2007NEW ORLEANS — It wasn’t the hurricane that almost killed this city. From day one, after Katrina, the Bush administration used this town as a laboratory to experiment with every type of right-wing social engineering scheme...
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