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Upsurge defends immigrant rights. Movement focuses on Senate
February 17, 2006RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Republican leadership of the U.S. Senate has indicated that floor debate on landmark changes in immigration policy will begin the week of March 27. But the debate will get under way weeks...
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Hunger strikers tortured at Guantanamo. UN report calls for closing U.S. prison
February 17, 2006WASHINGTON — Grisly details of torture of detainees at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are revealed in a new UN report, not yet released. The torture includes jamming feeding tubes up the nostrils...
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Hotel flap reveals imperialist essence of U.S. relationship to Mexico
February 14, 2006A storm is raging in Mexico over extraterritorial rights claimed by the United States. On Feb. 3, 16 Cuban oil industry officials were thrown out of the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel in downtown Mexico City, the...
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Schafik Handal, revolutionary leader, 75
February 10, 2006Tributes from around the world flooded in to the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) last week on the death of Schafik Jorge Handal, a distinguished revolutionary leader in El Salvador. On Jan. 24,...
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GULF COAST UPDATE
February 10, 2006Summit: Break deadlock on relief Gov. vows to play ‘hardball’ with feds Victory in tent city Putting a pin in pain
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