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President Obama: Health reform is for everyone
August 21, 2009President Obama grabbed the initiative in the health insurance reform debate by bringing a clear message to grassroots supporters via a national teleconference and webcast August 20. Because it will provide a quality public option and...
Read moreRally urges bank to modify home loans now
August 21, 2009CHICAGO — Elitha Brown has been a home childcare provider here for 17 years. She employs three assistants and watches over six children at her home business. In May 2005, Brown suffered a neck and back...
Read moreMercury contaminates fish nationwide, study shows
August 21, 2009Scientists have found mercury contamination in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released yesterday.
Read moreDoris Brin Walker, defender of civil rights, free speech, dies at 90
August 21, 2009SAN FRANCISCO ― Doris Brin Walker, an attorney famous for her brilliant and tenacious defense of political activists including Angela Davis ― and earlier, Smith Act and other McCarthy-era political defendants ― died Aug. 13 following...
Read moreIt’s time for united action
August 20, 2009COMMENTARY One of the most insidious forms of racism today is the current right-wing campaign to bring down the presidency of Barack Obama. Turning reality on its head seems the tactic of choice to achieve this...
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