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News: Peace : Protest Activity
Protesters Pay Tribute to Dead
Submitted by: scott / 24 Oct 2004 Publisher: AP
WASHINGTON - A small group of war protesters paid tribute to the troops who died in Iraq by setting up more than 1,100 flag-draped cardboard coffins in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.
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News: Peace
Injured Iraq Vets Come Home to Poverty
Submitted by: pvfp / 15 Oct 2004 Publisher: abcnews
Oct. 14, 2004 -- Oct. 14, 2004 - Following inquiries by ABC News, the Pentagon has dropped plans to force a severely wounded U.S. soldier to repay his enlistment bonus after injuries had forced him out of the service. Army Spc. Tyson Johnson III of Mobile, Ala., who lost a kidney in a mortar attack last year in Iraq, was still recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when he received notice from the Pentagon's own collection agency that he owed more than $2,700 because he could not fulfill his full 36-month tour of duty.
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News: Peace
Iraq Vets Breaking Ranks
Submitted by: PVFP / 15 Oct 2004 Publisher: Mother Jones
More and more U.S. soldiers are speaking out against the war in Iraq -- and some are refusing to fight.
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News: Civil & Human Rights
Prince's New Video Sparks Racism Debate
Submitted by: Prince / 15 Oct 2004 Publisher: Yahoo
MINNEAPOLIS - Prince is once again stirring up some controversy. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is generating debate with a new music video depicting an Arab-American teenage girl imagining herself as a suicide bomber.
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News: Elections & Legislation
Many Florida Blacks Wary of Fairness of Vote
Submitted by: Mikey / 11 Oct 2004 Publisher: Yahoo!
Many of Florida's 1 million black voters still feel cheated that their votes weren't counted in the state's flawed election four years ago. But for some, such as those here in rural Gadsden County, that bitter memory has elicited a surge of activism in the 2004 presidential race. _____________________________________________
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News: Media
Indy Media's Servers Confiscated
Submitted by: sm / 10 Oct 2004 Publisher: Inter Press Service
Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday seized two Internet servers in Britain that host the web sites of the global news network Indymedia. Two days later there was still no clarification of why the computers were confiscated or who is holding them.
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News: Housing
Temporary Housing Trailers Set Up
Submitted by: s / 03 Oct 2004 Publisher: pnj
FEMA and other agencies are setting up 200 temporary trailers for homeless as the shelters close and residents have no where to go.
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News: Housing
Families lose their homes while Landlords lose Rent
Submitted by: landlord watch / 02 Oct 2004 Publisher: PNJ
Phil Gargone was given 48 hours to vacate his home of 10 years at Spanish Bluff Apartments on Scenic Highway, just two days after Hurricane Ivan damaged part of the 122-unit complex. Andrea Casey and her family are being forced out of their Ensley rental home of three years because it was sold and they lost the opportunity to rent another home because of Ivan. Both have overstayed their eviction deadlines and don't know what to do.
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