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Film salutes Peggy Lipschutz
September 7, 2007“Never Turning Back: The World of Peggy Lipschutz” is a film about 88-year-old artist and political activist Peggy Lipschutz of Evanston, Ill. Lipschutz and her “chalk talks,” sometimes called “Songs You Can See,” have been part...
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Haiti: what really happened?
September 7, 2007BOOK REVIEW An Unbroken Agony: Haiti — From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President By Randall Robinson Basic Civitas Books, 2007 Hardcover, 280 pp., $26 Did the Bush administration kidnap former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,...
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Unions not welcome in Kid Nation
September 7, 2007While it’s true that many parents would like to see their children become a bit more enthusiastic about household chores, they probably wouldn’t want to see them in the kind of world depicted in “Kid Nation,”...
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U.S. youth find inspiration in Cuba
September 7, 2007In July 2007, nine members of the Young Communist League USA joined 51 other Americans on the 38th Venceremos Brigade to Cuba. Since 1969, Venceremos (“We shall overcome”) Brigades have been a way for Americans to...
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Take Gonzales, please!
September 7, 2007So far, Texas’ pleas for mercy have met stony silence from the other 49 states. Discredited Bushites, driven from their power perches in Washington, shamed before the nation and barely ahead of indictment, are flocking into...
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