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. 
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Oct. 20, 2007
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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.
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The Bush administration was pressing phone-spying on Americans long before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a former phone company CEO has revealed.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Louisiana’s LaSalle Parish Judge J.P. Mauffray ordered 17-year-old Mychal Bell back to jail for another 18 months Oct. 12, stirring outrage across the nation since an appeals court threw out Bell’s conviction as an adult on battery charges and the district attorney declined to retry Bell as a juvenile.
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DETROIT — Como 43 mil obreros dejaron caer sus herramientas el 10 de octubre en fábricas de Chrysler a través del país en la segunda huelga en dos semanas en la industria automovilística, aunque esta era más bien simbólica. Los obreros salieron a solo minutos antes de la hora límite de la 11 de la mañana y se quedaron afuera varias horas por el resto del turno.
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LOS ANGELES — Unos 2.000 activistas y líderes latinoamericanos de todas partes de Estados Unidos se reunieron aquí el 5 al 9 de octubre para trazar un plan de acción y justicia social para las elecciones del 2008. Su meta es la de llevar a 10 millones de votantes latinoamericanos que puedan jugar un papel decisivo en las elecciones para la presidencia y el Congreso.
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A big fat rat
Cheers for a living wage
Teachers endorse Obama, Clinton
Coalition of Labor Union Women convenes
Union members casting e-ballots
Home Depot targeted by Steelworkers
Another anti-labor move
The fightback at Wal-Mart
Union/nonunion contrast in the mines
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