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Racial gap is widening, equality advocates warn
April 18, 2009Racial inequality is widening in the current economic crisis, leaders of social justice groups warned in a national phone forum this week. Under the theme “Race and Recession,” the Compact for Racial Justice forum, April 14,...
Read moreJudith Krug, librarian, tireless advocate for First Amendment rights, dies
April 18, 2009CHICAGO — Judith Fingeret Krug, 69, the long-time director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, who fought censorship on behalf of the...
Read moreGrowing interest in Japan about Venezuela’s revolution
April 18, 2009(Akahata is published by the Communist Party of Japan) Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute Director Fuwa Tetsuzo (former JCP Central Committee chair) on April 7 attended a meeting in Tokyo with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
Read moreIndia gets ready for ‘Third Front’ in polls
April 18, 2009Indian voters cast their ballots in round one of parliamentary elections on Thursday amid Maoist violence that left at least 17 dead. In the first of five phases, over 140 million people voted in large swathes...
Read morePete Seeger: 90 years of song and struggle
April 18, 2009Born 90 years ago this May 3, Pete Seeger has been a tireless performer of topical song and a champion of global folklore, focusing his strongest efforts on that which was created by, for and about,...
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