Violence has always been a feature of police work. Marilynn S. Johnson, in her book “Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City,” details the violent history of the oldest (1841), and largest (over 30,000) organized force in the United States 
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Jan. 22 is the 34th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which ruled that state laws barring abortion violate the constitutional right to privacy.
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On Jan. 11 a federal grand jury indicted Luis Posada Carriles on one charge of fraud and six counts of lying about his illegal arrival in the United States on March 17, 2005.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The media reform movement has come into its own with its most recent conference held here Jan. 12-14.
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WASHINGTON — The broad labor-led coalition supporting the Democrats’ “100 Hour Agenda” in the 110th Congress hailed the 315-116 House vote Jan. 10 to raise the minimum wage to $7.25, and urged the Senate also to approve the increase without more tax giveaways to big business.
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President Bush’s announcement that he is sending over 21,000 more troops to Iraq has fueled increasing bipartisan opposition in Congress, among the U.S. public, in the labor movement and among the military itself.
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WASHINGTON — La apertura del 110mo Congreso de EEUU empezó con celebraciones visto que se rompió con el liderazgo que los republicanos tenían sobre la Cámara y el Senado. A la misma vez la nueva mayoría demócrata estaba firme que iban pasar su “Agenda de 100 horas” para aumentar el salario mínimo y bloquear el plan del presidente Bush de aumentar la guerra en Irak.
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Cuando el Pentágono anunció que hubo 3.000 soldados estadounidenses muertos en la guerra e invasión de Irak activistas por la paz organizaron protestas en más de 300 ciudades en por lo menos 46 estados. Muchos de los que protestaron esta semana pasada también van a tomar parte la protestan del 27 de enero en Washington, D.C.
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A fuzzy aura has been generated around Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States, who died at age 93 on Dec. 26. When I arrived on Capitol Hill in the spring of 1968 as a reporter for the Daily World, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) was still spearheading a racist crusade against Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.).
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Dr. Martin Luther King’s “dream” is alive and growing among American workers, in their struggles for what is rightfully theirs: a livable, sustainable world, at peace, where all prosper and opportunities abound for all.
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