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  • NATIONAL CLIPS: Oct. 6

    NATIONAL CLIPS: Oct. 6

    October 5, 2007 By Denise Winebrenner Edwards

    BOULDER, Colo.: Students walk out protesting pledge KANSAS CITY, Mo.: Churches offer shelter to undocumented workers MILWAUKEE: March celebrates struggle to desegregate housing SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Republicans abandon ‘stealth’ election trick

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  • Supporters rally for single-payer health care

    Supporters rally for single-payer health care

    October 5, 2007

    CHICAGO — Imagine that every U.S. resident received a health insurance card that could be presented to any doctor or hospital for a full range of medical benefits. As a patient, you would pay nothing, and...

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  • Demand grows to drop charges on Jena 6

    Demand grows to drop charges on Jena 6

    October 5, 2007

    Pressure mounted on LaSalle Parish prosecutors to drop all charges against the “Jena Six” following the release on bail, Sept. 27, of Mychal Bell, the only one of the African American teenagers to be tried and...

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  • Black Caucus meets to unleash the power

    Black Caucus meets to unleash the power

    October 5, 2007 By Denise Winebrenner Edwards

    WASHINGTON — With determined strides, warm hugs and the steely glint of struggling for justice in their eyes, over 20,000 African American leaders from all walks of life, from students to Ph.D.s, from business executives to...

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  • Iraq vets lead Syracuse march

    Iraq vets lead Syracuse march

    October 5, 2007

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Peace activists held a historic march and demonstration Sept. 29 here. Nearly 3,000 people participated in the protest called by the Fort Drum chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and hosted...

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