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Immigration Issues Debated at Alwan for the Arts - June 30, 2008

Professionals and scholars were brought together by Alwan for the Arts, an Arab awareness group, on Thursday June 26 to discuss immigration in the United States. Alwan had previously organized three similar events, with the intention of promoting frank discussion among the participants. The focus group included residents form Long Island, Westchester County and Manhattan, hailing from backgrounds as diverse as medicine, finance, real estate, art and law.
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Con Edison Workers and the Real Face of Privatization - June 28, 2008

One can only hope that the Utility Workers Union is serious about its strike threat. Pulling the workforce off the job for a protracted amount of time may help New Yorkers see that vital city functions such as the operation of utilities cannot be run privately.
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Harlem Is Not For Sale: Images from People's March Against Ethnic Cleansing - June 28, 2008

On June 21, the people took to the streets to voice their opposition to ethnic displacement and corporate centered development sweeping through Harlem.
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N.Y.C. R.A.T.s HIT ARROYO WITH A 'MOUSETRAP' DESPITE FAILED DIVERSIONARY TACTICS - June 28, 2008

BAYAN USA, a national alliance of Filipino organizations in the US, together with several other allied groups, coordinated R.A.T.s in several cities in protest of Arroyo's visit, claiming the President will funnel any foreign aid, especially US aid, towards the proliferation of human rights violations, including militarization, counter-insurgency, politically-motivated killings, and abductions in the Philippines. Ironically, the Philippine government was recently elected a vice-presidential...
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The Indypendent Issue 122: Selling Off New York: Three Tales of a City for Sale - June 27, 2008

Cranes fall. Billion-dollar corporate giveaways are negotiated behind closed doors. Greedy politicians and executives seek to dismember a not-for-profit healthcare company utilized by millions of people. Each of these stories and a hundred others like them are presented randomly by the media. Yet, a single-minded logic flows through them all. As our city is auctioned off to the investor class, is there room for any other concern besides maximizing profit The Indypendent has a three-part article.
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PTH & RHA Turn The (Buffet) Tables On Bloomberg's LGBT Dinner - June 27, 2008

A coalition of homeless people and their allies, queers and straights, lined the streets in front of Gracie Mansion. Inside, Mayor Bloomberg welcomed LGBT constituents for a dinner and a reception. On the streets, Nikita Price, an organizer with Picture the Homeless, led us in raucous chants so loud they could be heard even behind the mansion.
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NYC Venezuelan Consulate to Sponsor Independence Day Celebration Monday June 30 - June 26, 2008

Venezuela, along with our sister countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, is building paths toward a new independence from neo-colonialism. Find out more about this process Monday night from Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Adina Bastidas, Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Venezuela's ambassador to Ecuador and Sen. Piedad Cordoba of Colombia who is working to facilitate a just and peaceful end to her country's civil.
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Nader Rallies NYC Supporters, Suggests Obama Will Be 'Greatest Disappointment' - June 26, 2008

About 100 diehard Naderites welcomed their hero on June 18, when he came to New Yorks Upper West Side to tout his third-party campaign for the White House. Ralph Nader and his running mate Matt Gonzales will be on the Independent Party ticket. For the man on the top of the ticket, his vision for the future is simple; he wants to wage peace, not war. Nader is against anything becoming corporatized, a process that has reached its peak under President Bush. Nader also had strong words for the...
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New York Jews Support UNICEF's Decision to Cut Ties to Leviev - June 26, 2008

New York Jewish human rights organization Jews Against the Occupation today released a statement supporting UNICEF's decision to cease accepting money from billionaire Lev Leviev, whose companies build illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, mine diamonds under appalling conditions in Angola, and displace neighborhoods in NYC through gentrificondo projects from Gowanus to the Upper West Side. Replying to the Anti-Defamation League's recent attack on UNICEF for the decision,...
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