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Democracy Now! is coming to CAN TV

Democracy Now! Is Coming To CAN TV
 

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News :: Civil & Human Rights

The history of the Black man, Oppression since time immemorial.

American blacks are not the only ones to have experienced this humiliation and oppression. Their dark skinned brothers globally have been subjected to everything from slavery to humiliation, ridicule, and have been deprived of opportunities that have been made available to their comparatively fair skinned brothers. Brothers in other countries may not have been subject to slavery as in the US, but in other countries they have been subjected to oppression that is in many ways as humiliating and demeaning as being a slave in America.

In India, as recently as 2002, 5 Dalits, the Indian Blacks, were lynched in Hariyana, a backward Indian state. See the 2nd URL below.
 

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Commentary :: Civil & Human Rights

The history of the Black man, Oppression since time immemorial.

American blacks are not the only ones to have experienced this humiliation and oppression. Their dark skinned brothers globally have been subjected to everything from slavery to humiliation, lynchings, as recently as 2002 in India, ridicule, and have been deprived of opportunities that have been made available to their comparatively fair skinned brothers. Brothers in other countries may not have been subject to slavery as in the US, but in other countries they have been subjected to oppression that is in many ways as humiliating and demeaning as being a slave in America.
 

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Commentary :: Right Wing

The Nine Circles

 

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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights

Daley to ask for cameras all over Chicago

Chicago Sun Times

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Daley: Cameras will make us safer

January 31, 2006

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter

Mayor Daley on Monday embraced a radical plan to require every licensed Chicago business open more than 12 hours a day to install indoor and outdoor cameras.
 

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News :: Miscellaneous

The George W. Bush 2006 State of the Union Drinking Game

Step-by-step instructions for surviving the smirk
 

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Commentary :: International Relations

Why the U.S. Probably Won't Attack Iran

Bush's 130,000 Hostages
 

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Commentary :: Right Wing

Cindy Sheehan: “Bush’s Presidency Is Illegitimate!”

Cindy Sheehan is back in Washington, D.C. She appeared at a Forum, on Jan. 30, 2006, proposing the impeachment of both President George W. Bush and his vice-president-in-mayhem, Dick Cheney. Sheehan believes Bush’s election in 2000, by the Supreme Court was illegitimate and that his abrogating to himself Congress’s war making powers to invade Iraq was unconstitutional. Congress won’t do anything, Sheehan said, “unless we make them” do it.
 

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LOCAL News :: Protest Activity

Yippie, Chicago Conspiracy Trial Co-Conspirator Stew Albert: Dead at 66

Stew Albert, leading member of the "Youth International Party" (Yippie!,) an unindicted co-conspirator in the infamous Chicago 1968 "Conspiracy Trial," an instigator of People's Park and so much more - died peacefully yesterday, January 30, surrounded by Judy, Jessica and his many friends.
 

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Commentary :: Elections & Legislation : Right Wing

Progressive Democrats Need to Clean House...and Senate

The cowardly and calculating decision by 19 Democrats who voted to block a filibuster against the Alito Supreme Court appointment (and by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who didn’t vote) was a betrayal of liberal principles that should be rewarded by primary challenges for all those facing election in ’06.
 

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