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  • New Yorks police on rampage, critics charge

    New Yorks police on rampage, critics charge

    June 29, 2007

    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The New York Police Department is running wild in Black and Latino neighborhoods, using racial profiling as a tool of choice, charges a group of students and residents of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. The...

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  • Restore our liberties

    Restore our liberties

    June 29, 2007

    Rights coalition presses to close Gitmo, end torture and bring back habeas corpusWASHINGTON — One week before our nation’s July 4 celebration, thousands of protesters wearing Statue of Liberty crowns and holding signs reading “Torture is...

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  • Filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, lifelong radical

    Filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, lifelong radical

    June 22, 2007 By Dennis Laumann

    His films tackled the most contentious issues in Africa, frequently provoking the indignation of the ruling class of both his home country and its former colonizer.

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  • No rules

    No rules

    June 22, 2007

    Over ribs, chicken, homemade salads and pies, beer and pop, our Memorial Day cookout turned from a local Steelers controversy to politics. Debate arose over a recent shooting and grappling with why pulling a gun has...

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  • The victims of capitalism

    The victims of capitalism

    June 22, 2007

    The Victims of Communism Memorial at the intersection of New Jersey and Massachusetts Avenues NW in Washington, D.C., was finally unveiled, June 12. It’s a small, 10-foot bronze replica of the “Goddess of Democracy” carried around...

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