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Going Hungry For Ethnic Studies
Berkeley, Calif. - Hungry students and their supporters sit for the seventh day in front of University of California at Berkeley’s California Hall, after a futile meeting with University …
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Teen Moms Look for Support, But Find Only Shame
Seventeen-year-old Gaby Rodriguez recently made national news when she revealed to her entire Toppenish High School that the baby bump she had been slowly developing over the last six …
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Criticized for Industry Ties
In the fall of 2007, workers at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois were using a wire brush to clean a badly corroded steel pipe — one in …
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The Hancock 37 v. The Drones, Part Two: Daffodils
(Photo: Nick Mottern) On the morning of Friday, April 22, 2011, protesters of the MQ-9 Reaper killer drone operations at Hancock Field air base in Syracuse, New …
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Immigrant Rights Supporters Refocus Struggle on Obama
San Jose, Calif. - More than 300 people packed the Sacred Heart church in San Jose last Tuesday to hear Congressman Luis Gutierrez speak about immigration reform at a …
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Officers and Inmates Are Killed in Iraq Jail Revolt
Iraqi policemen assigned to 3rd Federal Police Division, stack on a wall prior to clearing a room at the Ghuzlani Eagle Training Center, March 9, 2011. A string of …
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While Bahrain Demolishes Mosques, US Stays Silent
(Photo: daoro) Manama, Bahrain - In the ancient Bahraini village of Aali, where some graves date to 2000 B.C., the Amir Mohammed Braighi mosque had stood for …
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Lawsuit: Racist Letters Spurred Arpaio to Step Up Immigration Sweeps
Phoenix, Ariz. - Racially charged letters sent to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio by his constituents—submitted Friday as evidence in a three-year-old racial-profiling lawsuit—could shed light on the motivations …
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From Education to Action: Inside the Arizona Ethnic Studies Battle
UNIDOS member Daniel Montoya addresses the supporters filling the school board meeting room. Nine members of the youth group took over the April 26 Tucson board meeting and …
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Drug-Related Violence Closing in on Mexican Capital
Cuernavaca - The military offensive waged by the conservative government of President Felipe Calderón against drug cartels in northern Mexico has resulted in an appalling death toll and grief-stricken …