Mayoral candidate welcomed on home turf
OAKLAND, Calif. — “Unity in the Community” was the theme as neighbors gathered May 20 at West Oakland’s DeFremery Park to greet former Congressman Ron Dellums in the area where he grew up, and to express their support for his campaign to become the city’s next mayor.
As Ohio goes, so goes the nation?
As everyone knows, Ohio’s vote tipped the scales for George W. Bush in 2004. Many questions were raised at the time about the security and accuracy of that vote. The recent May primary elections in Ohio, in which electronic or optical scan voting machines were in place statewide for the first time, raised many of the same questions.
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NEW ORLEANS: Nagin re-elected PITTSBURGH: National health care movement adds another sponsor BOSTON: Campus protest greets Rice LAS VEGAS: Unions campaign to save schools, services CHAPEL HILL, N.C.: City Council says ‘Impeach Bush’
Immigrant rights activists vow to press forward
Led by President Bush and the right-wing Heritage Foundation, Senate Republicans closed ranks and turned their backs this week on the millions who demonstrated for immigrant rights this spring.
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Student walkout protests teacher cuts National campaign dumps prison industry ‘Lavender graduations’ boost LGBTQ pride Students say ‘HMO profiteer’ contradicts university values
Flood damage points to government neglect
WORCESTER, Mass. — The worst flooding in 70 years has devastated much of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, leaving dozens of towns disaster areas, and focusing public attention on decades of neglect for the Massachusetts infrastructure, especially its 3,000 dams.
Activists hit racial profiling in West Sacramento
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Coalition for Justice for Immigrants, an alliance of civil rights, labor and immigrant rights groups, announced a campaign to end a long pattern of racial profiling and police harassment of Latinos here May 11.
Encore review: Confessions opens eyes
Economic Hit Men (EHM) are highly paid professionals who work for major corporations. Their business is to swindle countries out of billions of dollars by cajoling them into taking out loans with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund or the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Racism, self-image focus in Shoot the Messenger
In recent years commentary around race in the United States has increased somewhat. When films like “Crash” and “Spike Lee Presents C.S.A: Confederate States of America” attempt to spark national dialogue around race issues, they speak to the mainstream. However, for some of my peers and me, something critical has been missing.
