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Vermont city elects Progressive mayor
March 17, 2006BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bob Kiss, the Progressive Party candidate for mayor, swept to a surprise victory here March 7. Running against a Democrat, Republican and two independents, Kiss, a state representative, confounded pundits and pulled an...
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NEWSINBRIEF
March 17, 2006U.S. edging toward dictatorship Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor charged that the attacks on the judiciary by Republican ultra-rightists are inching the country toward dictatorship. O’Connor addressed corporate lawyers at Georgetown University on March...
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Peace groups to Congress: Open up debate on Iraq
March 17, 2006National peace organizations are pressing Congress to open up debate on getting the U.S. out of Iraq. With Bush insisting on “staying the course” and “not believable any more,” Congress is “the only body left to...
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Katrina homeless march on White House
March 17, 2006WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina survivors marched from Capitol Hill to the White House, March 14, stopping at FEMA along the way, to demand that President Bush reverse FEMA’s decision to evict 10,000 hurricane evacuees from hotels...
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Time for a new civil rights revolution
March 17, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They have lied and spied on the American people. We have been in Iraq for three years, it’s time we get out now,” said Jarvis Tyner, guest speaker at the 32nd annual...
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