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The 110th Congress is now in session and congressional leaders are expected to move on a broad range of critical matters that are a vital concern to the entire nation; topping the list is the Iraq War, the national debt, the balance of trade, affordable health care, immigration, solving the nation’s energy crisis, the environment, and minimum wage. Congress is expected to move quickly to raise the federal minimum wage from the present rate of $5.15 to $7.25 per hour by 2009; it will be the f...

Anti-war protests times and places on Thursday...

Massachusetts and now California will require patronage of private, for-profit insurance firms that have motive and corporate duty to provide as few services as possible for as much money as possible. That is just one dark side....

Children riding on school buses are exposed to high levels of cancer-causing pollutants, due to the old diesel buses. Many scientific organizations, activists, etc., have joined the push to clean up school buses...The first steps in this cleaner school bus awareness campaign are: 1) Replacement of the oldest fleet buses, 2) Retrofitting of the older models, and 3) Anti-idling policies. These 3 steps can help reduce pollution *while* improving kids' health......

The BALIKATAN (Shoulder to Shoulder) joint war exercises between Filipino and American troops will resume in February, an official of the US Embassy in Manila said Monday. "In February we will start again the Balikatan, US " Charges d'Affaires Paul Jones told reporters here after attending a military command conference presided over by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Jolo, Sulu....

Without reproductive rights, women are treated like farmed animals- who also are forced to bear young against their will. Reproductive rights are human rights. To deny women reproductive rights is to treat them as less than human....

House of Stormz 1439 105th Avenue @ International Oakland, CA 94603...

San Luis Obispo, California, U.S. - A 1978 Patton model M60A3 decommissioned U.S. Military tank was repainted with anti-war slogans Monday night. White paint and computer-printed signs on white paper that said "Blood for Oil" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom for Oil" were discovered by police early Tuesday morning. The words "oil" and "murder" on the tank in red paint. The vandal called a local newspaper late Monday night to let them know about the incident and explain the anti-government sentime...

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