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Guantanamo hunger strike
September 30, 2005Despite conflicting reports from the Pentagon and total silence from the Red Cross, prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have held several hunger strikes since 2002, protesting conditions and their prolonged confinement...
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Cuts in affirmative action and wages inundate hurricane survivors
September 23, 2005Working families in the Gulf region are being hit by a second disaster as the Bush administration uses the current emergency to slash wages and open the door for discriminatory hiring practices across an area already...
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LETTERS
September 23, 2005Extradite Posada Carriles The Bush administration offer of protection to Luis Posada Carriles through a low-key, immigration hearing in El Paso, Texas (PWW 9/10-16), ignored by the media, in fact applies the unconstitutional Cuban Adjustment Act...
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EDITORIAL: Puerto Rican independence
September 23, 2005On Sept. 23 thousands of Puerto Ricans went to the town of Lares to commemorate the 137th anniversary of the revolutionary uprising against Spanish colonialism. These protesters also demanded the end of today’s U.S. colonial domination...
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EDITORIAL: Second superpower is back
September 23, 2005On Feb. 15, 2003, 11 million people around the world marched and rallied against Bush’s plans to unleash a pre-emptive, unilateral war. This huge outpouring was described as “the second global superpower.” The antiwar movement ebbed...
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