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Death penalty key issue in Illinois election
August 1, 2002This week, scores of state’s attorneys from Illinois’ 102 counties are attending a conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, sponsored by the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation. The purpose of the conference is to hone...
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Bush appointee favors concentration camps
August 1, 2002A statement released by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) on July 22 called for removal of Peter Kirsanow, a Bush appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). Kirsanow, speaking during a USCCR hearing in...
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Peace activists demand Justice not war
August 1, 2002CHICAGO – Amid mounting concern about the Bush administration’s threatened attack on Iraq, close to 200 peace activists at Peace Action’s 15th annual national congress here July 27-28 vowed to campaign for “justice not war” and...
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Urge Senators to Defeat Priscilla Owen
July 26, 2002In another nod to the radical right, George W. Bush has nominated Priscilla Owen to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Owen has repeatedly attacked reproductive freedom, workers’ rights...
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EDITORIALS
July 26, 2002Another reason to vote President Bush’s July 22 decision to withhold $34 million from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is another “first.” No other country has ever pulled funding from the Fund, which promotes family...
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