VFor four months, from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every Wednesday, freedom of speech seemed to be alive and well in an old fashioned classroom where students asked questions, talked in small groups and wrote with pens and pencils on lined-paper...L...
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Medea Benjamin Calls on Obama to Visit Gaza
During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit GazaBy Medea Benjamin / May 29, 2009Obama will give a major policy talk at Cairo University on June 4, intended to start mending the rift between the United States and the Arab world. During the Bush years,...
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Obama, the Anti-War Movement and the Neo-Cons: Turning the Ship Around
Obama's agenda of 'turning the battleship' is not our agenda of disarming it altogether: ending U.S. interventionism and bullying of all sorts, initiating an era of peaceful global cooperation to tackle poverty, disease, global warming and other threats...
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Chavez: 'When the Working Class Roars, the Capitalists Tremble'
Venezuela: ‘When the working class roars, capitalists tremble’By Federico Fuentes / May 30, 2009Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the “socialist transformation of basic industry”,...
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Texas mayor resigns for gay partner
The mayor of San Angelo, Texas, has resigned just ten days after a landslide re-election victory to pursue his relationship with his gay partner, an illegal immigrant.J W Lown was elected in 2003 as the city's youngest ever mayor at the age of 32. He...
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GreenNote Introduces P2P Student Loan Hybrid: Virgin Money Meets Facebook with a Dash of Prosper
This week two Finovate Startup alums launched theservices they demo'd a month ago at our conference:June 2: CheckingFinder from FirstROI/BancVueJune 4: Friends & family student loan facilitator,GreenNoteWe'll start with GreenNote and look at CheckingFinder...
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