News :: Animal Rights
BUTCHERS!
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10 Nov 2009
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Shocking Images Highlight Urgent Need for Policy Reforms
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LOCAL News :: Health Care
Greens urge defeat of Dems' 'phony reform' health bill in the Senate, seek a rally of efforts for Single-Payer
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10 Nov 2009
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Green Party
Greens urge defeat of the Democrats' "insurance industry life-support" bill in the US Senate and call for a rally of efforts to enact Single-Payer/Medicare For All
• The US House bill passed on Saturday favors the insurance industry over Americans who need medical care; no heath care reform bill should be enacted that doesn't allow states to enact Single-Payer, say Greens, who slam House Democrats for killing a vote on Single-Payer last week
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LOCAL News :: Civil Liberties / Human Rights : Elections / Legislation : Health Care
Congressman Eric Massa outlines reasons for his vote against Health Care Legislation
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09 Nov 2009
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Eric Massa Press release
CORNING, N.Y. - Today Congressman Eric Massa outlined his reasons for voting against H.R. 3962 on Saturday night. To summarize the specific votes: Rep. Massa voted for the rule of debate, against the Stupak Amendment and against final passage of the bill.
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News :: Police and Jails
PFP Candidate Alexander Propose Releasing 50,000 California Inmates
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09 Nov 2009
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Stewart A. Alexander
Alexander says the most efficient means to deal with California’s over crowded prisons would require state lawmakers abolishing the Three-Strikes Law and remanding more than 30,000 non-violent offenders to their original courts for re-sentencing; however, “that will not likely occur because a majority of the state’s lawmakers are more concerned with protecting and preserving the prison industrial complex rather than dealing with this serious threat to human health and public safety.
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LOCAL News :: Environment : International Politics and Economics
Traditional Native Leaders: Hydrofracking must be banned
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09 Nov 2009
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Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force
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LOCAL News :: Elections / Legislation
"Once candidates are under the wing of MCDC, original ideas are replaced by generic blandness."
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09 Nov 2009
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Harry Davis
"By closing out the process in the committees the way it did, Morelle insured a low turn-out in the City, which hurt the County-wide races."
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News :: Civil Liberties / Human Rights
Inicio de la ultima etapa de mexico
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09 Nov 2009
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josefa ortiz
inicia la descolonizacion
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American Jury Duty
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09 Nov 2009
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EvansPress
As of June 2009, American Jury Duty is an involuntary summoning of American citizens to potentially take part in a jury trial. 1. Individuals are chosen at random as a result of DMV registration or voting registration. 2.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil Liberties / Human Rights : War + Peace
Beyond the Rhetoric: The Human Realities of the Israeli Occupation
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08 Nov 2009
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University of Rochester SDS
While the White House is paying increasing attention to a 'Middle East Peace Process', and politicians in Israel delay comprehensive peace talks, the reality of the on-going Israeli Occupation has been all but lost in sound bites. Bekah Wolf, who has lived the last 3 years in the Occupied West Bank and is the International Coordinator for the Palestine Solidarity Project, is going on her third nationwide speaking tour, bringing an eyewitness' accounts, along with a critical analysis of the realities of Israeli occupation in 2009 and what they mean in an international context, especially in regards to the recent UN fact-finding mission headed by international jurist Richard Goldstone, the prospects for renewed three-party negotiations, and the upsurge in the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns.
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LOCAL Announcement :: International Politics and Economics : Protest / Resistance : War + Peace
11/16 School of Assassins vigil in Rochester
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08 Nov 2009
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Join us to remember the 20th anniversary of the murders of six Jesuits and two women in El Salvador by School of the Americas (SOA) graduates.
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