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Ed Roche Transforms Gang Lives with Training Program

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LOS ANGELES – Ten years ago Ed Roche started recruiting students for his trade program from the most unlikely of sources – street gangs. He and Eighth District Councilman Bernard C. Parks recently appealed to the Los Angeles City Council to help fund Roche’s unique initiative that has taken gang members off the street and […]
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Thursday Press Teleconference: Clinton Commutation Beneficiaries Call on President Obama to Expedite Clemency for Crack Cocaine Prisoners

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WASHINGTON, DC—Advocates for presidential clemency will join together for a press teleconference on Thursday, December 16 to urge President Obama to expedite clemency for people serving excessive terms under the now-reformed federal crack cocaine sentencing laws. Participants will be commemorating the 10-year anniversary of President Clinton’s commutation of Kemba Smith and Dorothy Gaines, two women […]
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Elaine Brown Speaks About GA Prisoners on Democracy Now

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‘Lockdown for liberty!’ exposes prison conditions

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By Charlene Muhammad, FinalCall.com – Fed up with bad food, unjust treatment, poor education and inadequate health care, thousands of inmates in Georgia’s prison system staged “Lockdown for Liberty,” a peaceful protest on Dec. 9, according to activists. The Black, White, and Latino inmates from Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith, and Telfair State Prisons […]
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Ruling on Obamacare is “very defective” and “will be overturned”

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As you have already heard, a federal judge in Virginia today pronounced the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, delivering the hardest legal blow yet to Obama’s signature domestic achievement and handing Obamacare foes some new material for their ongoing anti-Obamacare dance around the campfire. But on a conference call with reporters just now, a legal expert […]
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Federal Judge Rules Health Care Reform Provision Unconstitutional

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By Larry O’Dell – Richmond, Va. — A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care law unconstitutional Monday, siding with Virginia’s attorney general in a dispute that both sides agree will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson is the first federal judge to strike down the […]
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President Obama on the Tax Cut Agreement

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Sarah Palin’s Insulting Black History Lesson

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Don’t Blame The Alcohol, Blame The Students

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By Lucius Gantt – American students should be ashamed! Young people all around the world are rising up against government and corporate exploitation. And what are American students doing today? Sitting on their behinds, hoping for the best, playing cards and flunking all of their tests! The world’s economic crisis was rooted in the United […]
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