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NEW ORLEANS — A small sliver of downtown New Orleans has bounced back as a neighborhood of gleaming corporate office towers and a playground for the rich.

WASHINGTON (PAI) — Despite strong lobbying by unions, health care groups, children’s groups and their allies, House Republicans mustered enough votes on Oct. 18 to uphold anti-worker President George Bush’s veto of children’s health care. Union leaders vowed the Republicans would receive retribution at the election polls a year from now.

Unidos por la Paz y Justicia (UFPJ), la coalición antiguerra más grande en Estados Unidos, anunció que planean protestas masivas en 11 ciudades del país el 27 de octubre.

NUEVA YORK — Poco antes de amanecer, bajo el brillo de reflectores, despiertan aterrorizados los residentes de un pequeño pueblo al oír el sonido de golpes en las puertas.

CHICAGO — Sobre 200 personas se reunieron aquí el sábado 21 de septiembre en la iglesia metodista San Lucas para la inauguración del Instituto Afro-Latino de Chicago. Su misión es fortalecer y crear redes de activistas entre los latinos de descendencia africana en Estados Unidos.

It’s been said that Communists make the best fighters for social progress because they have the big picture of the struggle, the long view of the road towards a better society, and feel strongly about justice.

The Bush administration was pressing phone-spying on Americans long before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a former phone company CEO has revealed.

WASHINGTON — Witnesses in a Capitol Hill hearing Oct. 16 blasted the U.S. Justice Department for doing nothing as Jena, La., officials inflicted blatantly discriminatory punishment on six Black high school students while white students who committed violent racist acts were let off with a slap on the wrist.

United for Peace and Justice, the largest antiwar coalition in America, has announced plans for 11 peace marches to take place around the nation on Oct. 27.

WASHINGTON — Two-year old Bethany Wilkerson was making such a healthy, happy ruckus during a Capitol Hill rally, Oct. 16, that her mother, Dara, had to hand her over to the child’s father so she could appeal to Congress to override President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).