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 5/31
French Voters Reject EU Referendum; New Security Plan in Iraq
as Attacks Continue; Bikers Protests Government Treatment
of Veterans; Washington Voters Attempt to Block New Radioactive
Waste Shipments; On-Going War Increases Number of Homeless
Children in Uganda; Teachers End Strike in Oaxaca City, Mexico;
5/30
A Real Marine: No Place to Serve;
5/27
French May Vote NO on EU Constitution; Non-Proliferation Treaty
End Today With Little Progress; The Weaponization of Space;
Consumer Rights Groups Oppose Asbestos Legislation; Senate
Democrats Stall Vote on Bolton's Nomination; Real ID Act Threatens
Transgender US Citizens;
5/26
Mass Bombings in Baghdad; Amendment to Pentagon Budget Sought
to Bring Troops Home; Mahmoud Abbas Visits Washington; Californians
Stage State Wide Protests Against Schwarzenegger; MALDEF Sues
Over Detainment of 3 Immigrant High School Students; Nebraska
Beef Workers Threaten Strike; Disability Rights Advocates
Rally at the Department of Education;
5/25
Bolivia's New Hydrocarbons Law May Bring Down Government;
Opposition to Election Referendum in Egypt; New Offensive
in Iraq; Amendment Seeks to Withdraw US Troops from Iraq;
Student Converge on Military Recruitment Centers;
5/24
Political Battle over Judicial Filibusters Continues; Congress
Considers Bill to Make Parts of Patriot Act Permanent; Education
Workers on Strike in Mexico; Texan Residents Oppose Trans-Texas
Corridor; Sami Al-Arian Trial in Florida; New Delhi Cinema
Bombing;
5/23
Afghan President Hamid Karzai Visits Washington; BBC Workers
on Strike; Demonstrations Planned Against AIPAC Policy Conference;
Mining Effect on the Philippines' Marinduque Island; Property
Disputes Over India and Pakistan Administered Kashmir;
5/20
Human Rights Groups Reiterate Call for Independent Investigation;
Ugandans Recruited by US and European Firms for Security Work
in Iraq; Crack Cocaine and Powder Cocaine Sentencing Inequities;
Pro and Anti Castro Protests in DC Today; Medicare's New Drug
Benefits May Harm the Nation's Poorest and Sickest; Global
Conference on Wind Energy;
5/19
Opposition to Republican Efforts to Eliminate Filibuster;
Alarm Over Expanded Surveillance; Former Haitian Prime Minister
Continues Hunger Strike; Immigration and the EU Constitution
Referendum in France; Australia Under Regional Pressure to
Sign Amity and Cooperation Treaty; Malcolm X Birthday;
5/18
Los Angeles Elects First Latino Mayor in Over 130 Years; ACLU
files Lawsuit Against FBI Over Surveillance of Political Activists;
Houston Residents Protest Halliburton; Luis Posada Cariles
Detained By Homeland Security; Indigenous People's Forum at
the United Nations;
5/17
Last Minute Lobbying Efforts on the "Nuclear Option";
Newsweek Retracts Article About US Interrogators Desecrating
Koran; Indonesia Drops Charges Against US-Based Multinationals;
Small Faction of Pro-GMO Countries Prevent International Consensus
on Food Labeling; Destruction of Central America's Largest
Extension of Wetlands; Demonstrators Protest Against Logging
in Southern Oregon;
5/16
Senate Republican Leadership Threatens Enacting the Nuclear
Option; Civil Unrest Continues in Uzbekistan; Nelson Mandela
in DC; Second Anniversary of Immigrant Deaths in Texas; Protests
Throughout the United States Over the Cost of War in Iraq;
Excerpts from Speeches at the Opening Plenary at the Media
Reform Conference;
5/13
Pentagon Recommends Closure of Bases and Outposts; The Race
for the Mayor of Los Angeles; Activists Rally at Brazilian
Embassy in Washington; French Muslims Prepare to Vote in European
Constitution Referendum; Global Marriage in a South Indian
Village Causing Problems;
5/12
John Bolton Nomination Headed to Senate Floor; Bi-Partisan
Immigration Reform Introduced; Fuel Prices Affect Small Farmers;
US May Be Turning its Back to Anther Human Rights Scandal
in the Middle East; Sweden's Harsh New Immigration Laws; Commentary
by Mumia Abul Jamal: Nukes R Us;
5/11
Pentagon Indicates that Anti-US Attacks in Iraq Have Doubled
in the Last Month; State of New York Reverses Controversial
Driver's License Requirement; Muslim American' Civil Rights
Abuses on the Rise; Indigenous Mapuches Fight for Resource
Rights in Southern Argentina; A Look at Forced Labor in Asia;
Rebuilding Northern Uganda's Educational System;
5/10
US Senate Ready To Approve Immigration Measure; Support for
Free Trade Pact Flounders In Congress; War Resistors Rally
Across the Country; U.S./Indonesian Joint Military Excercizes
Focus on Piracy; Connecticut Scheduled for First Execution
in 45 Years; Paris Commemorates Algerian Massacres;
5/9
Law-Makers Request Bush Answer Questions over Internal Document
on Iraq; President Bush Visits Georgia; Democrats Threaten
to Shut Down the Senate; Drastic Cuts to the Section 8 Voucher
Program; Mumia Abul Jamal Commentary: Harder and Harder to
Recruit;
5/6
Controversy Growing over Pharmaceutical Industry; Environmental
Protections Repealed; Tony Blair Re-Elected Without Popular
Mandate; Mustafa Barghouthi on Municipal Elections in Palestine;
Real ID Act Will Rescind Habeas Corpus; Indigenous Resistance
to Colombian Military and FARC;
5/5
House Passes Final Version of War Supplemental; Legislation
to make Head Start Funds More Difficult to Get; Mumbai Government
Cracks Down on Poorest Residents; Increasing Israeli Settler
Attacks on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank; Academic
Bill of Rights Shot Down in Colorado; Holocaust Remembrance
Day;
5/4
Capitol Hill Lobbyist Illegally Paid for Trips Made by Politicians;
Making Marijuana a Key Policy Concern; French Citizens Still
Divided on EU Referendum; Community Campaigners Attend Gold
Mine Company's Share Holder's Meeting; Telephone Obstacles
Facing Families in Divided Kashmir; Corruption at Nuclear
Power Plant in the Philippines;
5/3
New Pentagon Report: US Military Resources Being Stretched
Thin; Split Widens Between Iran and the US at UN Conference
on Nuclear Proliferation; National Identification System Draws
Critics; Northern Uganda’s LRA Rebels May Avoid War
Crimes Trials; Days Before the Election, Tony Blair Under
Increasing Scrutiny Over War in Iraq; Racial Tensions Escalate
in St. Petersburg, Florida;
5/2
United Nations Begins Month-Long Conference on Nuclear Non-Proliferation;
Historic Vote for the Organization of American States; New
Fears of White Nationalism Working its Way into National Policy;
GMOs More Likely to Show Up in the Mexican Food Supply; Thousands
Rally in New York Against War and Nuclear Arms; Immigrant
Workers March on May Day in Los Angeles;
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