SAN FRANCISCO — Here he goes again. University of California Regent Ward Connerly, a prominent African-American conservative and former benefactor of affirmative action programs, has submitted nearly one million voter signatures to
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SAN FRANCISCO — Under President George Bush's new world of "morality" everything is "black and white". People, groups and states are either "good" or "evil". Countries are with the US or against it. The "evil" terminology permeates
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SAN FRANCISCO — President George Bush's "war on terrorism" is leading to some complex and contradictory reactions among African Americans. Like an overwhelming majority of Americans, blacks reacted to the heinous crime of
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SAN FRANCISCO — "America has a message for the nations of the world. If you harbour terrorists, you are terrorists. If you train or arm a terrorist, you are a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist or fund a terrorist, you're a
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SAN FRANCISCO — President George Bush's proclaimed "war on terrorism" is not just directed at Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda network or the Taliban forces in Afghanistan. The war is also targeted at civilians in the US and abroad.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Some 5000-7000 people rallied here on September 29 to protest the US war drive in response to the September 11 terror attack that levelled the World Trade Center in New York City and badly damaged the Pentagon.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Some 400 people packed a local church on the evening of September 20 to establish a city-wide anti-war coalition to respond to President George Bush's war against "world terrorism". The "Town Hall Meeting to Stop
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On June 8, the United States Civil Rights Commission issued a divided report on the electoral process in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. By a partisan vote of six to two, the eight-member commission voted along party
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SAN FRANCISCO — There is an old saying: "When your neighbour is out of work, that's a recession; when you're out of work, it's a depression". In California, the wealthiest state in the United States (and the sixth largest economy in
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BY MALIK MIAH & RICH LESNIK SAN FRANCISCO — Mechanics and utility workers at United Airlines face a new representation election. The standoff pits the incumbent union, the International Association of Machinists, against the upstart Aircraft
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In mid-March the United States Census Bureau released its official count for the US population. There are 281,421,906 people, as compared to 253,979,140 in 1990. Reflecting a historic trend, non-Hispanic whites declined from 75% to
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BY MALIK MIAH & RICH LESNIK SAN FRANCISCO — George W. Bush campaigned for president on two broad themes: "compassionate conservatism" and against "big government" interfering in the lives of the American people. Workers in the airline industry