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Trips to the street: antidotes to despair
October 24, 2003Opinion I was back out on the street again today in Brunswick, Maine, leafleting and petitioning about the USA Patriot Act. For the past couple of months I’ve gone out at least once a week in...
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Public vs. for-profit health care in Canada
October 24, 2003Opinion The Canadian public has said no to the erosion of universal, single-tier public health care. Indeed, popular pressure forced a recent Canadian Royal Commission to propose expansion of the public system. The Canadian system provides...
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Time for patriotism
October 24, 2003Opinion It was funny celebrating the Fourth of July this year and imagining what a U.S. solider might say when explaining to an Iraqi kid what the July 4th holiday is. “Well, it was when the...
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Keep the pressure on for peace and justice
October 24, 2003Opinion Because of the growing opposition to the Iraq war, the state of the U.S. economy and deep concerns about new threats to democratic rights, things are moving to the left.
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Letters
October 24, 2003More on nonpartisan elections It is important to examine the arguments for nonpartisan elections from every angle possible. Why, as some assert, would third party candidates receive more votes in nonpartisan elections? Simply because they are...
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