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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights
YWCA National Day To Eliminate Racism
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15 Apr 2003
Modified: 20 Apr 2003
On Saturday April 26, 2003, the YWCA is celebrating their National Day to Eliminate Racism. Since 1994, The YWCA nationally has been engaged in promoting community dialogues on issues of race. The YWCA at the University of Illinois and the University YMCA is holding a panel discussion on race and diversity in honor of the day. The discussion will take place on Saturday April 26th beginning at 1 pm to at Latzer Hall in the YMCA building (1001 S. Wright St) on the University of Illinois campus.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Peace
Vietnam: The War At Home -- Video Showing & Discussion
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20 Apr 2003
Attend a showing of this award-winning documentary, and learn lessons from the anti-Vietnam war movement for today's anti-war activists!
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News :: International Relations
US Government Implicated In Planned Theft Of Iraqi Artistic Treasures
Current rating: 3
20 Apr 2003
WSWS.org
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As the full extent of the looting of Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad emerges, it becomes clear that there was nothing accidental about it. Rather it was the result of a long planned project to plunder the artistic and historical treasures that are held in the museums of Iraq.
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Commentary :: Media
TV's Military 'Embeds'
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20 Apr 2003
Why no dissenting voices to say what millions of people around the world proclaimed in the streets: that this U.S. invasion was illegal, unjust and unnecessary?
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News :: Globalization
PLEASE ACT NOW: Boycott For Peace - Let The Corporations Know!
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19 Apr 2003
A little sleuthing on Google gave me these individual emails (real people) for major companies being targeted in the Boycott. These are the VPs, CEOs, and spin doctors of the greedy creeps that donate their dollars to Bush and his cronies year after year. Just spend the five minutes it takes to email these lovely folks, and we'll have 'em all shaking in their $800 cowboy boots (see my sample letter for inspiration).
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LOCAL News :: Labor
Labor Headlines 4/19/03
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19 Apr 2003
Headlines broadcast during the Illinois Labor Hour, Saturdays at 11 am on WEFT 90.1 FM, Champaign. American Airlines Execs take $1.8 billion in worker concessions & 100% pay increase for themselves; Mass layoffs reporting reinstated, UI Attempts to Force Furlough on Employees; WTO Ministerial Approaches -- Resistance builds
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LOCAL News :: Health
Report Finds Genetically Engineered Foods A 'Risky Business' For Kraft (kft)
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19 Apr 2003
Genetically Engineered Foods Pose Unnecessary Financial Risks to Kraft Foods, Inc. and Other Food Companies

Kraft operates one of its largest plants in Champaign, where it is a major employer. Kraft employees and others holding shares of its stock might want to consider changing their positions or writing to Kraft's board of directors about the risky business decision of using GMO ingredients.
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Commentary :: International Relations
BTL:Lawsuit Charges Coca-Cola With Complicity In Attacks On...
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19 Apr 2003
...Colombian Union Activists Interview. with Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
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Commentary :: Media
Media And The Politics Of Empathy
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18 Apr 2003
I know of very few mainstream American journalists who have pointed out that President Bush has the blood of many Iraqi children on his hands after launching an aggressive war in violation of the U.N. Charter and the Nuremberg principles established more than half a century ago.
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Commentary :: Regime
Brilliant Expose Of The Bush Admin's Fundamentalist Subtext
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18 Apr 2003
The only thing the author misses is the tie-in to similar antics on the part of every ascendant fascist of the past 100 years, including Hitler
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