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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Past Imperfect: The GOP Invention
(Africana.com)
The party responsible for Emancipation and the 15th Amendment is now the party responsible for illegally disenfranchising black voters in 2000 ? and the one threatening to do so again in 2004. This might be tragically ironic, but it's not accidental.

(While the GOP goes through their staged play in New York this week, it's a good time examine the historic pattern behind the script. )

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Some Bodies That Matter
(Chickenbones)
With two bills -- the H.R.163 and S.89 sponsored by Representative Charles Rangel and Senator Ernest Hollings, respectively -- being debated, folks have been scrambling to get their kids conscientious objector (CO) status. Given that if either bill passes, women and college students would be 'draftable,' there appears to be a particular urgency to resisting the draft...

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4/3/2005; 3:34:35 AM - Lawrence Green


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