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Just say NO to offshore oil drilling
June 20, 2008Greenpeace is calling for signatures on an to McCain, titled “Just Say NO to Offshore Drilling.”
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A small picket line turns into a mass outpouring
June 20, 2008CHICAGO — Sixty striking workers who have been taking turns picketing in front of the Congress Hotel here for the past five years could not conceal their joy June 11 as thousands of trade union and...
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Rallies across country slam Big Oil, McCain
June 20, 2008Here’s what Manny Flores, a Laborers Union member in Denver, had to say about the pain many are feeling at the gas pump.
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Top court upholds detainee rights
June 20, 2008Defenders of human rights praised the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling that hundreds of detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to a fair trial and other habeas corpus legal rights. Hundreds...
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Midwest disaster
June 20, 2008Emergency programs needed to rebuild, many say As the rising Mississippi continued to crash through levees June 17, sending walls of water into Midwest towns and threatening thousands of additional acres of farmland, many were already...
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