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Bloomberg appoints Hearst Magazines CEO to lead schools
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the current chancellor of education, Joel Klein, would be resigning to take…
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Protests demand end to Afghan war and occupation
Seattle Several hundred people rallied and marched in downtown Seattle Saturday Oct. 9 to demand an end to the Afghan…
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Ground Zero ‘controversy’ is pure racism
Many headlines have focused of late on the plans to build an Islamic Center in Manhattan, New York City several…
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Capitalist crisis forces early retirement
As unemployment persists at catastrophic levels, many--roughly 2 million in 2009 alone--are faced with no other option than to retire…
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Suicides in the military soar as the wars drag on
The writer is a veteran and member of March Forward! which is an organization of veterans, active duty service members…
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Militant immigrant rights actions protest racist SB 1070
The following is a compilation of reports sent in by activist-correspondents to PSLweb.org. A separate article on the actions in…
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NYC ‘Stop and Frisk’ policy targets Black, Latino youth
Basic constitutional rights that guarantee for every individual freedom from search, seizure and detention without an established probable cause of…
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Sean Bell Way inaugurated to honor victim of police brutality
Photo: Vanissa Chan On May 18, Liverpool Street in Jamaica Queens was renamed to honor Sean Bell, who the NYPD…
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NYPD allows rich to be ‘Commanding Officers for an Evening’
The New York Police Department now allows you to become a "Commanding Officer for an Evening"--that is, if you have…
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National Day of Action demands: Seize BP!
The momentum of the Seize BP campaign is growing each day. As BP executives hedge at Congressional hearings, saying they'll…
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