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 6/30
A Look At the Dominican Republic Central American Free Trade
Agreement; No Child Left Behind's Hidden Clause; Carpenter's
Union Joins Coalition Challenging the AFL-CIO; No End in Sight
for Trapped Mexican Newspaper Workers; Local Residents in
Albuquerque Organizing to Place Minimum Wage on Ballot; Mass
Protests in Democratic Republic of Congo;
6/29
Senate Finance Committee Approves Free Trade Agreement; Iraqis
Respond to Bush's Address; Ugandans Protest over New Presidential
Terms; Immigration Advocates Lobby to Make Immigration Reform
a Reality; India/Pakistan Peace Process Offers Little Hope
for Kashmir's Disappeared; India's Rape Laws Challenged;
6/28
Senate Passes Energy Bill that Further Deregulates the Industry;
Civil Liberties Activists Demand Due Process for Guantanamo
Detainees; Psychological Effects of War on Iraqi Civilians;
Torture Awareness Events in Washington; Gay Pride Battle in
Tampa, Florida; Anniversary of Incident at Oglala on the Pine
Ridge Reservation;
6/27
Supreme Court Issues Final Rulings for this Session; African
Human Rights Activists Launch Campaign of Shame; Congress
Holds Hearings over Halliburton Subsidiary KBR; Iran's New
President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Oaxacan Newspaper Workers
Locked In; Phillipine President Arroyo Apologizes Over Last
Year's Elections; US-Based Filipinos Call for Arroyo’s
Removal;
6/24
Iraqi Prime Minister Visits Washington; Indian Heat wave Kills
Hundreds of People; Thailand Tsunami Relief: Six Months Later;
Update in Lebanese Elections; Potential Cuts to Health, Educations
and Labor Departments; Dirty Computer Recycling Operations
at California Prison;
6/23
Pentagon Rejects Call for Timeline for Withdrawal from Iraq;
House Considers Funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting;
Newspaper Workers In Oaxaca City Remain Trapped in Building;
Asylum Seeker Deportations in the UK; Mumia Abul Jamal Commentary:
A Little Matter of History;
6/22
Zapatistas on Red Alert; Environmental Issues Highlighted
on Capitol Hill; Republican Senator to Submit Bill to Create
Detention Commission for Guantanamo; Report on Prisoners in
Iraq; Immigrant Detention Laws to be eased in Australia;
6/21
Edgar Ray Killen Convicted for Civil Rights Workers Murders;
House Approves $409-Billion Pentagon Budget; Connecticut Military
Base Closing Threatens Environment and Community; Democrats
Stage Another Successful Filibuster Against Bolton; UN Commission
of Experts Evaluates Human Rights Tribunal in East Timor;
Bio Democracy in Philadelphia; Demonstrations Against Proposed
Cuts to CPB;
6/20
Senate Addresses Global Warming; Confusion over "Strike"
at Oaxaca's Best-Selling Newspaper; Roma Community Marginalized
in Kosovo; Demonstrators Support Immigrant Day Laborers in
Los Angeles; Activists Protest Coal Industry Trade Show;
6/17
Iraqis Weary of Exit Strategy; Iranians Head to the Polls
for Presidential Election; EU Meets for First Time Since France
and the Netherlands Reject Constitution; How Debt Cancellation
May Affect Local Ugandans; Indonesia and the United States
Sign Debt Rescheduling Agreement; House Committee Passes $100
Million Cut to Corporation for Public Broadcasting;
6/16
Downing Street Memo Hearing on Capitol Hill; House of Reps
Votes to Bar FBI from Searching Library and Bookstore Records;
Controversy over Proposed Religious Hatred Law in Britain;
Women's Rights Violated in India; Congress Members Push for
Moratorium on Human Subjects in Pesticide Testing; Tough Choices
over Urban Sprawl in Albuquerque; Farewell to Randi Zimmerman;
6/15
Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Guantanamo Bay Prisoner
Rights; International Groups of Former Officials Call for
Open Access to Detainees; US Army Celebrates 230th Birthday;
French Respond to Olympic Bid During Economic Slump; Activists
Oppose Coal Fired Plant in Colorado; Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary:
The Death of Pensions?;
6/14
Amendment Seeks to Protect Libraries and Bookstores from Patriot
Act; Iraqi Labor Leaders Visit Washington; University of California
Clerical Workers Strike; The National Prison Rape Elimination
Commission Hears Testimony from Rape Victims; Ongoing Protests
over Urban Transportation in Brazil; Luis Posada Carriles
Seeking Asylum; The Case of Jeff "Free" Luers;
6/13
G8 Decides on Debt Relief for World's Poorest Nations; Iranians
Ready to Head to Polls; Los Angeles Area Janitors Prepare
for Strike; Italians Vote on National Referendum on Assisted
Fertility Law; French Journalist and Translator Held Hostage
in Iraq Released; Federal Management Decides Fate of Sarasota
Public Housing;
6/10
Fierce Congressional Hearing Over Treatment of Immigrants
Post 911; New Interim President in Bolivia Calms Some Demonstrations;
Tribal Leader Killed in Kirkuk; Oil Prospecting in Nigerian
National Park Draws Criticism from Community; Rally Against
Millstone Nuclear Station; Washington DC Begins to Consider
Living Wage Policy;
6/9
House Considers Resolution for the US to Withdraw from the
WTO; Consumer Groups Question the High Fee of Bank Overdraft
Charges; Sunni Arab Leaders Demanding Representation on Committee
to Draft Iraqi Constitution; Protests Continue in Bolivia;
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Visits; California
Peace Activists Protests Lockheed Martin;
6/8
Council of Europe Criticizes Britain's Human Right Record
Under Blair; President Bush Questioned Over Downing Street
Memo; Senate Intelligence Committee Passes Patriot Act Reauthorization
Act; Coalition Pushes for AgJobs Bill; Opposition Mounting
Against NAFTA Superhighway; High Schools Opposing Military
Recruitment on Campus May Face Federal Funding Cuts;
6/7
Bolivian President Resigns under Mass Pressure from Social
Movements; Zalmay Khalizad Senate Confirmation Hearing; A
Look at the Medhi Army in Iraq; Caspian Pipeline Open Amid
Controversy; Republicans Oppose Tearing Down Snake River Dams
in Washington; Student Loan Interest Rates to Increase;
6/6
Supreme Court Rules on Medical Marijuana; Post-Polio Survivor
Responds to Supreme Court Ruling; Debate on Janice Rogers
Brown Begins Today; Indian Activist Vow to Continue the Fight
Against Coca Cola; Bio-Weaponry Questioned in Maryland; Indigenous
Women Speak Out Against Bush's Environmental Record; Commemorating
the Long Walk;
6/3
Violence Continues in Iraq; Genetically Modified Organisms:
A Look at the Cartagena Protocol; New French Government Has
Yet to Please Residents; Trafficking in Persons Report Released;
Migrant Labor in Asia; Costa Ricans Consider DR-CAFTA;
6/2
Violence and Insecurity Continue in Haiti; Human Rights Advocates
Demand More from Bush on Darfur; Mass Protests and Strikes
in Panama over Pension Reforms; Tony Blair Faces Opposition
over National ID Card Plan; Activists in Albuquerque Demand
Officials Prepare Emergency Preparedness Plan; Kashmiri Leaders
Make Historic Trip to Pakistan;
6/1
Grass Roots Effort to Impeach Bush over Downing Street Memos;
Unreported Violence in Iraq; Employment Guarantee Act in India;
Boulder City Council Considers Building Waste Treatment on
Sacred Lands; Paul Wolfowitz Protested at World Bank; Religious
Discrimination at Air Force Academy;
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