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Egypt: The Untouchables
October 25, 2007Commentary Egypt’s independent, nongovernmental press is trying to cope with government regulations that stifle freedom of speech and deny the public access to balanced news coverage. Last month some newspapers decided to write about Egyptian President...
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: NYU Unveils Lost Films Of The Communist Party USA
October 25, 2007New York City, October 18 — The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has established October 27, 2007 as the first-annual World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. To commemorate this event, New York University’s Moving...
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House GOP upholds Bush veto on SCHIP, union leaders vow retribution
October 20, 2007WASHINGTON (PAI) — Despite strong lobbying by unions, health care groups, children’s groups and their allies, House Republicans mustered enough votes on Oct. 18 to uphold anti-worker President George Bush’s veto of children’s health care. Union...
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Help us get to $100,000 by Nov. 1
October 19, 2007The People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo fund drive has been progressing at a pretty good pace. But now we have to step it up. As of Oct. 15, we are at $76,723, about 38 percent. We want...
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Study of deaths in police custody raises questions
October 19, 2007A first-ever Justice Department study of deaths in police custody raises more questions than it answers. The study, “Arrest-Related Deaths in the United States, 2003-2005,” released Oct. 11 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), covers...
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