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"Salt of the Earth" |
by Mike Lehman
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28 Feb 2001
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"Salt of the Earth" is a film about a 1950 Chicano miner's strike where, due to an injunction, the male miners are banned from the picket line. Their wives and companions take to the picket line, while the men take up domestic duties in the home. The film will be shown, in honor of Chicano History Month, on Monday, March 5th in the Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana at 7pm. A faculty member from the Chicano Studies department will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterwards. |
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IMCs Win Alternet Media Award |
by Mike Lehman
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27 Feb 2001
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You know you're doing something right when you start winning awards and you're less than 18 months old. The Independent Media Centers win, in a collective effort, special recognition for "their powerful and ambitious coverage of anti-corporate protest events worldwide." |
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Free Press? Surely You're Joking. |
by Mike Lehman
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27 Feb 2001
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This excerpt is from an article, "In the freest press on earth, humanity is reported in terms of its usefulness to US power," which appears in the Feb. 18 edition of the 'New Statesman'. It's perspective is particularly appropriate reading for all IMCistas. |
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New Report Rakes Clinton on Imprisonment |
by Drug Reform Coordination Network
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26 Feb 2001
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A report released this week by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice's
Justice Policy Institute scores former President Bill Clinton for a "prison legacy...
more punitive than those of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush
combined," and provides the numbers to back it up. |
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Feds vs. Bongs: Heads Up for Head Shops |
by Drug Reform Coordination Network
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26 Feb 2001
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Adam Engleby thought everything was cool. Yes, his shop, Hemp Cat in Iowa
City, sold, ahem, "smoking accessories," or bongs, pipes, and rolling papers, but
the Iowa City Police Department visited regularly, and they never had any
problem with Hemp Cat's back room. |
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Judge Orders Elgin To Turn Over More Documents |
by Nancy Edwards
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26 Feb 2001
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In a Stunning Setback, A Judge Has Ordered The City of Elgin To Turn Over More Documents Proving That it Abused Constitution and Targeted One Man With A Law |
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