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  • Puerto Ricans unite at pro-independence rally

    Puerto Ricans unite at pro-independence rally

    September 28, 2007

    “We are united with the same end in common — the independence of our motherland,” Elma Beatriz Rosado told several thousand people who gathered on Sept. 23 in the Plaza of the Revolution in Lares, Puerto...

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  • Controversy on Iran as UN Assembly opens

    Controversy on Iran as UN Assembly opens

    September 28, 2007

    UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President Bush both arrived in New York last week to speak at the opening of the UN’s 62nd General Assembly, bringing with them a storm of controversy. While...

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  • 20,000 to attend Black Caucus meet

    20,000 to attend Black Caucus meet

    September 28, 2007 By Denise Winebrenner Edwards

    Against the background of the historic Jena Six march in Louisiana, deepening poverty in African American neighborhoods, a raging war in Iraq and a growing prison population, over 20,000 political activists, students and clergy will converge...

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  • Kucinich excluded from Iowa debates

    Kucinich excluded from Iowa debates

    September 28, 2007

    CLEVELAND — It would seem that front-running candidates for president in the Democratic primaries should have nothing to fear from Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Although he claims growing support and leads three other candidates, the Ohio legislator’s...

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  • Judge OKs minor fine on terror-sponsor Chiquita

    Judge OKs minor fine on terror-sponsor Chiquita

    September 28, 2007

    Colombia’s right-wing paramilitaries are terrorists. Washington named them as such in September 2001. But the AUC, as they are known from their Spanish initials, rule the roost in Urabá in northern Colombia. So what should a...

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