Below you’ll find an Associated Press article about the rallies this weekend. For entire article click the blue “Read More” link below.
Thousands call for swift end to Iraq war
By Jason Dearen, Associated Press Writer | October 28, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO –Thousands of people called for a swift end to the war in [...]
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Why Have the Children Been Left Behind?
By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
Posted on October 22, 2007
Printed on October 28, 2007
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The debate in Congress over whether to reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is underway.
What’s with these politically-calculated, brand-name, PR-speak, [...]
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Below is an article I found in Guardian Unlimited.
Indian ‘Slave’ Children Found Making Low-cost Clothes Destined for Gap
Dan McDougall in New Delhi
Sunday October 28, 2007
Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one [...]
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