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Cincinnati - Can You Hear the Footsteps Coming? |
by Gregory Flannery
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03 May 2001
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The following story is an indication that forces of freedom will be converging on Cincinnati on June 1, 2, and 3. We will have updates posted here as the event develops or you can keep up on what is happening in Cincinnati by going to the Ohio Valley IMC link on the left side of this page. Groups planning on organizing participants from our area to go to Cincinnati and participate are invited to use the IMC website and other resources to organize delegations representing our area. Cincinnati is only four hours away. |
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2 Citizens arrested for watching police. |
by Danielle & John by way of Sascha Meinrath
meinrath (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified) |
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03 May 2001
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The following two e-mails contain information about the arrest of two citizens -- their only crime was daring to watch police stop and search two African Americans in the streets of Urbana. They in no way interferred with the police officers -- but did refuse to leave, adamantly declaring their right to be witnesses of police actions. Further news coverage will be available soon from the IMC. |
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Four Dead in Ohio: May 4 - 31 Years Later |
by Mike Lehman
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03 May 2001
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Mayday, just celebrated locally on the U of I Quad, is a memorial day for slain workers and the cause they represented. May 4 brings us to a memorial day for slain students and the cause they represented, ending US involvement in the Vietnam War after Nixon had just expanded the war by invading Cambodia in 1970. |
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Harvard Sit-in, Now in Day 16, Goes Far Beyond Protesters' Expectations |
by Joanna Weiss
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03 May 2001
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Harvard Living Wage Campaign Sit-In A Life of Its Own
Published on Thursday, May 3, 2001 in the Boston Globe
A few hours, that's how long they figured the sit-in would last. Or, at the most, a few days. Then they'd surely be arrested and dragged from Massachusetts Hall. They'd draw attention to the living wage, make Harvard look momentarily bad, and feel they had accomplished something big. |
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Taxpayers for Common Sense Statement In Response to Bush's Speech on NMD |
by Taxpayers for Common Sense
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03 May 2001
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WASHINGTON - May 1 - Statement by Alise Frye, director of the National Security Project at Taxpayers for Common Sense in response to President Bush's speech on missile defense: |
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Women's Groups Question Social Security Commission Appointments |
by National Coalition of Women's Organizations
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03 May 2001
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WASHINGTON - May 2 - The National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO), the oldest and largest umbrella coalition of the nation's major women's groups, urges the new Social Security Commission to listen to the public's concerns about privatizing the nation's most important safety net for retirees, the disabled and their survivors. |
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Security Experts Say Bush Missile Defense Plan Will Decrease Overall Security |
by Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
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03 May 2001
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WASHINGTON - May 1 - An alliance of 16 leading nuclear non-proliferation organizations said President Bush's call for a massive and expensive, air-, sea-, and space-based national missile defense system will decrease, rather than increase, overall American and international security and undercut the value of possible reductions in U.S. offensive nuclear weapons and standing-down U.S. weapons from hair-trigger alert. |
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Child Care Teachers Deserve Worthy Wages |
by National Women's Law Center
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03 May 2001
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WASHINGTON - May 1 - Following is the statement by Judith C. Appelbaum, vice-president, National Women's Law Center on worthy wage day:
Ed. Note: I'm not quite sure why they didn't simply call them Living Wages. Maybe they actually want more than a Living Wage ($8.20 hr), but that would be deserved. Nearly all child care workers in this area make less than a Living Wage, including those working for county government in its Head Start program. ML |
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