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George W. Bush Has This Thing About Laws That Disagree With Him |
by Ralph Nader
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22 Dec 2002
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Treaties that deal with arms control or a real weapon of mass destruction called global warming are irritants to our White House-based west Texas sheriff. The Bush Administration has rejected the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, declined to support the small arms treaty, the land mines treaty and the verification protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention. Mr. Bush refuses to submit the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty for ratification by the Senate which rejected it under President Clinton. |
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LOCAL News :: Labor |
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Labor Headlines 12-21-02 |
by Peter Miller
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21 Dec 2002
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Headlines broadcast during the Illinois Labor Hour, Saturdays at 11 a.m. on WEFT 90.1 FM, Champaign. Jury Rules Wal-Mart Broke Wage Laws, Chinese Teachers Protest Over Wage Cut, Holiday Greetings: Plant Closes Abruptly, At Least 60 Jobless; UAW Preparing Complaint for Meridian Workers, BEATING THE BUSHES |
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BTL:Trent Lott's Future As Senate Majority Leader In Doubt, But... |
by Between the Lines'Scott Harris
betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (verified) |
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21 Dec 2002
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...Undercurrent of Racism Persists in GOP. Interview with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author and commentator, conducted by Between the Lines'Scott Harris |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Blockbuster Video Censoring NAACP T.v. Spots In Its Stores |
by pájaro pequeño
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21 Dec 2002
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according to a source at blockbuster video, earlier this week, the corporate office sent out a memo addressed to "all stores" asking them to play a censored version of the advertising trailer that appears in all their locations. the original version, which included two NAACP spots along with the usual advertisements and music videos, apparently received a negative response from several blockbuster employees and customers. the memo directs managers at blockbuster outlets to enter a special code at the onset of the "BBTV" (blockbuster television) dvd in order to block out the NAACP spots to "get ahead of... weekend sales opportunities". blockbuster is owned by viacom, one of the world's largest media conglomerates |
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Announcement :: Peace |
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Pittsburgh IMC Callout To Regional IMCs! |
by emma
info (nospam) indypgh.org (unverified) |
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19 Dec 2002
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Please come to Pittsburgh January 24-26 for the Regional Anti-War Convergence, and help the brand-new Pittsburgh IndyMedia Center cover its first convergence! Please! |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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ACLU Calls Immigrant Registration Program Pretext For Mass Detentions |
by ACLU
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19 Dec 2002
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"Given the evidence, there is no alarmism in saying this is a round-up," said Lucas Guttentag, Director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project. "Attorney General Ashcroft is using the immigrant registration program to lock up people who already have provided extensive information as part of their green card applications," he said. "Therefore the purpose is clearly not to get information but rather to selectively arrest, detain and deport Middle Eastern and Muslim men in the United States." |
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