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US needs to act to end discrimination
June 19, 2009Original source: The United Nations special rapporteur on racism has urged Washington to do more to address 'ongoing issues of racism and ethnic discrimination' in the US. Offering recommendations before the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...
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Jane Hodes, lifelong activist, founder of Niebyl-Proctor Library
June 18, 2009Jane E. Hodes, a longtime Communist Party member and activist for peace, social and economic justice, died June 6 at the Oakland, Calif. retirement home where she had lived for many years. She was 90 years...
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Obama, grassroots groups move to protect consumers from Wall Street
June 18, 2009WASHINGTON — Condemning Wall Street’s “culture of irresponsibility” that plunged the nation into the worst economic crisis in 80 years, President Obama unveiled a sweeping plan June 17 to strengthen bank regulation and protect consumers from...
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Thousands rally for Congress Hotel workers in 6-year battle
June 18, 2009CHICAGO — Marking the nation’s longest running strike, thousands of trade unionists, community activists and elected officials marched in a picket line stretching solidly around the Congress Hotel here, June 15, to demonstrate their unwavering solidarity...
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New study calls for action on rising hate crimes
June 18, 2009Leaders of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) held a June 16 conference call to release a new report called, “Confronting the New Faces of Hate Crimes in America.” “Last...
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