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Join a new mothers revolution
May 12, 2006On Mother’s Day — the highly commercialized U.S. corporate version, not the antiwar vision of Juliet Ward Howe — we are bombarded with paeans about how worshipped, respected and revered Motherhood is in this country. A...
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S Se Puede means We Shall Overcome
May 12, 2006May 1, a day of worker celebration, began in the United States around the struggle for the eight-hour day. Now it is honored across the world, but largely ignored in the United States. How fitting then...
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EDITORIAL: A hyena in charge of the jackals’ den?
May 12, 2006Democracy-minded Americans have long had ample reason to be concerned about the activities of the CIA and the broader intelligence community of which it is a part. Those concerns have taken a new turn with the...
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EDITORIAL: Celebrate mothers fight for peace, justice
May 12, 2006Certainly it is good that we have displays of devotion on Mother’s Day, roses and chocolates, taking Mom out to dinner. But there is a need to reclaim the idea of Mother’s Day proposed by Julia...
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Three decades later, Agent Orange still ravages Vietnam, GIs
May 12, 2006An unprecedented meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 28-29, proved that wounds from the Vietnam War are still open and bleeding three decades after that conflict supposedly ended. It was the first International Conference of Victims of...
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