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  • Group demands Feds investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio

    Group demands Feds investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio

    December 18, 2008

    America's Voice, a group that favors comprehensive and humanitarian immigration reform, released a new Web video this week slamming infamous Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The video calls on the Justice Department to investigate Arpaio...

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  • Cuba celebrates UN Human Rights Day 60th anniversary

    Cuba celebrates UN Human Rights Day 60th anniversary

    December 17, 2008

    If scant Internet postings and newspaper coverage indicate anything, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Dec. 10 — designated each year as Human Rights Day — passed almost unnoticed in the...

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  • Ultra-right pushes Canada into political crisis

    Ultra-right pushes Canada into political crisis

    December 17, 2008

    Canada has been thrown into a period of intense political volatility as the three opposition parties in Parliament have rejected the governing ultra-right Conservative Party’s “mini-budget” response to September’s economic meltdown, and announced the formation of...

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  • Class struggle clarified

    Class struggle clarified

    December 17, 2008

    Americans are gaining a much clearer view of the ongoing class struggle. National Jobs with Justice (JwJ) and other organizations are calling for a “People’s Bailout” in opposition to the handouts flowing from the Bush Administration...

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  • Agile Ecuador government riles friends and foes

    Agile Ecuador government riles friends and foes

    December 16, 2008

    Pursuing social justice and national independence, the government of President Rafael Correa has gained new adversaries while prodding old foes. Having won a 57 percent majority in a run-off vote, Illinois-trained economist Correa, candidate of the...

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