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MILWAUKEE – A progressive Christian organizing institute, the Gamaliel Foundation, held its National Leadership Assembly here Dec. 4-6, kicking off campaigns for voter registration and education, immigrant rights, metro-suburban equity, and drug treatment as an alternative to prison.

The Bush administration and big business interests are colluding in the sale of “tools of torture,” according to an Amnesty International report titled “The Pain Merchants” released on Dec. 2.

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Pressure is mounting for a negotiated end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, despite continued obstruction by the right-wing Sharon government.

Una fuerza de ocupación envolviendo a 10 vehículos armados y docenas de soldados atacaron la sede de la Federación Iraquí de Sindicatos (FIS) en Bagdad, el 6 de diciembre.

GENEVA – Trade union organizations worldwide used this year’s Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, to remind the international community that workers’ rights are human rights, but these rights are still denied to millions of workers.

Once again Venezuela draws all the attention in Latin America’s evolving scene with the development of a new political crisis.

WASHINGTON – A crowd of 3,000 people at Constitution Hall, Nov. 9, erupted in cheers when Al Gore called for repeal of the Patriot Act to stop George W. Bush’s assault on the Bill of Rights.

President Bush’s stage-managed Thanksgiving Day trip to a U.S. military hangar in Baghdad dramatized the extent to which the administration is now handling Iraq as an element in Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.

MIAMI — Calificándolo como “operativo militar,” los organizadores del grupo “Alto al ALCA” denunciaron el uso “sin precedente, innecesario y sin provocación” de la fuerza por parte de la policía aquí el 20 de noviembre contra manifestantes legales y pacíficos.

Familiares de soldados, junto con veteranos de otras guerras, salieron esta semana con una misión sin precedencia. Ellos viajaron a Irak como parte de una gira de paz de siete días.