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  • Walkout: Nationwide, thousands of high school students rally for immigrant rights

    Walkout: Nationwide, thousands of high school students rally for immigrant rights

    April 7, 2006

    NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Students in this small city walked out of class at exactly noon, March 31, to demand immigrant rights, joining a wave of thousands of students doing the same thing in Los Angeles, San...

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  • U.S. stonewalling on extraditing anti-Cuba terrorist

    U.S. stonewalling on extraditing anti-Cuba terrorist

    April 5, 2006

    There is much that is remarkable about Luis Posada Carriles — accused airplane bomber, wrecker of hotels, murderer, and would-be assassin of Fidel Castro. Even after 11 months in U.S custody, however, the only charge against...

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  • Janitors, students force U of Miami to talk

    Janitors, students force U of Miami to talk

    March 31, 2006

    MIAMI — The University of Miami main campus saw action March 28 that would have been unimaginable a few short weeks ago. More than 300 janitors, students, faculty and community supporters stopped traffic on South Dixie...

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  • True to its history, FBI still violating civil liberties

    True to its history, FBI still violating civil liberties

    March 31, 2006

    According to a report just released by the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation violated procedures for wiretapping and other methods of obtaining intelligence more than 100 times in the last two years. The department’s...

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  • A referendum on the Bush agenda

    A referendum on the Bush agenda

    March 31, 2006

    On the color-coded 2004 election maps, New York was blue — not a big surprise. Yet many “red” areas dot the state’s political maps, including nine Republican congressional districts, the Statehouse (held by three-term Republican Gov....

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