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Starve the poor budget approved
November 23, 2005WASHINGTON – The Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) denounced as a “spectacle of greed” a House vote Nov. 18 to approve $50 billion in cutbacks to food stamps, Medicaid, and other vital benefits for the poor...
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Vets march 225 miles to nearest hospital
November 23, 2005SAN ANTONIO — Twenty veterans, mainly in their 50s and from the Vietnam War, observed Veterans Day by marching 225 miles from the Rio Grand Valley area in South Texas to San Antonio to protest the...
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Veterans for Peace campaigns against war profiteers
November 23, 2005SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Around 100 Members of Veterans for Peace and their supporters began a campaign against war profiteers with a picket at the Radisson Hotel in Sacramento on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. As they arrived,...
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New York: Big bucks means big win for Bloomberg
November 23, 2005NEW YORK — Incumbent Republican Michael Bloomberg defeated progressive Democratic challenger Fernando Ferrer by 19 percentage points in the Nov. 8 elections, in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one. The big question, as...
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Why Murtha, and what it means
November 22, 2005PITTSBURGH — “Big John” Murtha, representative to the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 12th District, which covers Johnstown and Washington, Pa., is a no-nonsense kind of guy from a gritty no-nonsense district. In 1999, steelworkers...
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