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New York City, April 14, 2004 - Take a break as you fill out your 1040 form, and play this game: suppose you could choose which government entities your tax dollars support — and in what proportion....

Join CodePink as we say no to the gas-guzzling behemoth that gets only 10mpg, pollutes the air at 2-3 times the rate of an average car, and helps fuel our oil dependence as it drives us to war. There will be more than 20 simultaneous protests at Hummer dealerships across the country....

WASHINGTON – Family members of troops deployed in Iraq walked to the gates of the White House, April 14, holding bouquets of carnations in memory of the 660 American soldiers and thousands of Iraqis who have died in the Iraq war. They carried, as well, hundreds of letters from military families demanding the safe return of their sons and daughters....

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House and a top Saudi official denied Monday a report of a deal to lower gasoline prices before the November presidential election. "There was no secret deal," White House spokesman Dan Bartlett told CNN....

"The sober reality is that the American economy is only kept alive artificially. The Bush administration is doing everything to nourish the illusion of a recovery..Families have become indebted at record levels..Whole regions of the US have become industrial ghost towns.."...

A leftist who is a retired soldier. Stan Goff writes, “Many of my associates in the antiwar movement talk about ‘reaching out’ to the military. They want to convert them. They want to transform them from robotic killing machines into Gandhians. These are the liberals. … I think soldiers need to reach out to the left as well. Maybe we soldiers have a contribution to make to your clarity.”...

A new book says Vice President Dick Cheney informed the Saudi ambassador to the United States of the president's decision to go to war in Iraq before Secretary of State Colin Powell was told of the decision....

Arnold Beverly, a a confessed hit man for organized crime, swore under oath that on 12/9/81 he shot Officer Faulkner, a whistleblower who was telling federal investigators of corruption in the Philadelphia Police Department. Mumia Abu-Jamal, an award-winning president of a black journalists association, and a taxicab driver who was in the area at the time, was falsely accused and convicted of the murder, of which Beverly has since confessed. On April 24, 2004, Mumia celebrates his 50th birt...

ATU International Sits idiely By As ATU local 1005 gets Privatized!...

On April 16-18, 2004, activists and organizers will come together at the Brookdale Campus of Hunter College New York, NY for the Second International Convention of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition. This convention will encompass workshops, keynote presentations and strategy sessions geared toward enhancing knowledge, organizing and developing the North American and international movement for the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees. The convention will be a groundbreaking a...