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Conservative talk show host Mike Gallagher and president of the liberal channel, Air America, Mark Green, will duke it out over the Dems. push to reinstate the fairness doctrine. Full Story
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Conservative talk show host Mike Gallagher and president of the liberal channel, Air America, Mark Green, will duke it out over the Dems. push to reinstate the fairness doctrine. Full Story
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Human Rights First Welcomes Bipartisan Bill to Protect Iraqi Refugees
Proposals Would Extend a “Long-Overdue Lifeline”
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Human Rights First today welcomed The Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act, co-sponsored by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) which would provide safe haven to those Iraqis who are at risk because of their work with the United States or with U.S. organizations.
This bill will extend a long-overdue lifeline to Iraqi refugees who have fled from persecution and danger, said Eleanor Acer, Director of the Refugee Protection Program at Human Rights First. I hope this legislation spurs action within the administration, which has yet to respond to this growing crisis with the necessary scale or urgency.
Senators Kennedy and Smith introduced the legislation in anticipation of World Refugee Day on June 20, the date set aside to focus global attention on the plight of the world s refugees and their struggles against oppression and persecution. The Kennedy-Smith bill would: Full Story
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President Bush, who faces mounting congressional pressure to end the war, called Saturday for patience as U.S. forces conduct stepped-up operations in Iraq.
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Colombian Trade Unionists Assassinated by Paramilitaries Paid by American Companies, Congress Told
Human Rights Specialist, Colombian Mine Union Official, Former Military Officer and USW Lawyer Testify to Abuses
For Immediate Release June 28, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. Witnesses ranging from a former Colombian military officer to an American human rights expert testified before Congress today that paramilitary groups are murdering trade unionists in Colombia at a rate unparalleled in the world and on the dime of multinational corporations based in the United States.
Francisco Ramirez Cuellar, president of Sintraminercol, the Colombian mine workers union, and author of, The Profits of Extermination, How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia, told the Congressmen there is proof that Drummond Ltd., the Colombian subsidiary of Alabama-based Drummond Co., Inc., paid paramilitaries to kill three union officials at Drummond. And, he said, several other American companies, including Ohio-based Chiquita Brands International, have been involved in similar practices.
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We look at what happens next as the latest iteration of a constitutional amendment on education falls into a kind of limbo, as restaurants and bars prepare for a new statewide smoking ban, as primary politics heats up and as a supreme court deadline to define adequacy in education reaches t-minus one week and counting.