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Chavez Commemoration Craves Consensus it Lacks, by Joe Hicks

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Chavez Commemoration Craves Consensus it Lacks by Joe Hicks This past March marked the 80th anniversary of the birth of the late farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez, and some members of Congress are pushing legislation that may someday lead to ...
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Black Liberals Need To Stop The Double Standard, by Akindele Akinyemi

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Black Liberals Need To Stop The Double Standard by Akindele Akinyemi (bio) Radio host Don Imus's reputation and career quickly went downhill. Imus recently made the bad decision to describe the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "rough girls" with ...
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Subprime Mortgages: A Case of Back to the Future, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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  Subprime Mortgages:  A Case of Back to the Future by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. (bio) Are you living "the American Dream"?  More importantly, are you able to pay for it? According to Census Bureau figures, almost 70 percent of American ...
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Cesar Chavez Did Little to Stop His Union’s Violence, Charges Civil Rights Activist at Congressional Hearing on Honoring Chavez

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Joe R. Hicks, a Project 21 member who marched arm-in-arm with Jesse Jackson at Cesar Chavez's funeral in 1993, will testify before Congress March 29 in opposition to spending public funds honoring the late United Farm Workers union organizer. Hicks ...
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House Action on Iraq Supports ‘Disgrace and Defeat’, Black Leader Says

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Project 21’s Kevin Martin is speaking out in support of President George W. Bush's decision to veto the controversial emergency supplemental spending bill for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that was approved by the House today by a thin 218-212 ...
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Officials Urged to Grill Al Gore About His Rich-Get-Warmer, Poor-Get-Colder Global Warming Offset Proposals at House and Senate Hearings Wednesday

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Members of the black leadership network Project 21 urge elected representatives to use Al Gore's appearances today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to ask the former Vice President about his own ...
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Thank God for Senator Inhofe

A report from Peyton Knight, who attended today���s Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing featuring Al Gore: Al Gore brought his global warming sermon to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works this afternoon, where Chairwoman Barbara ...
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Senators Kennedy, Domenici and Enzi and to Make Health Insurance More Expensive With So-Called Mental Health Parity Act

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Washington, D.C. - Legislation advancing through in the U.S. Senate to regulate so-called mental health parity will instead simply make health insurance more expensive or mental health benefits less available. "This is a surefire way to wreak more havoc on ...
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Frank Wolf’s Anti-Property Rights National Heritage Area Bill Scheduled for Pivotal Vote in the House Today, March 7

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Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Frank Wolf's (R-VA) controversial Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act is scheduled for a vote in the House Resources Committee today.  This is virtually the same legislation that failed to move in the ...
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Even Labour Party MPs Can’t Get Needed Health Services in Britain

A former left-wing Member of the British Parliament and a long-time backer of Britain's government-run National Health Service (NHS) is rethinking her opinion of the NHS ��� because a decision it is making may cost the former MP her eyesight ...
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