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Written by: Gerry Lykins on Mar 21, 2010 9:04 AM EDT

Sunday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ March 21st, 2010

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Vote on Health Bill Today Caps a Journey Back From the Brink

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, JEFF ZELENY and CARL HULSE

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/health/policy/21reconstruct.html?hp

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A History of Health Care Reform

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/19/us/politics/20090717_HEALTH_TIMELINE.html?hp

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30 Million Reasons

The Editors:We support passage of the healthcare legislation, even as we urge the progressive community to begin the struggle immediately to correct its many flaws and improve its protections.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100405/editors

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Pelosi Shuts Down Talk of Abortion Vote

by Tory Newmyer

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/20-4

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A New Deal For Our Times
By Alan Nasser

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25040.htm

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Conservative Libertarian: Stewart Plays Beck

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/03/19-1

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Brick thrown through window in Slaughter's Falls office

http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/03/19/993040/brick-thrown-through-window-in.html

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Tea party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressman

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/20/90772/rep-john-lewis-charges-protesters.html

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Lawmaker won't press charges in spitting incident

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/20/1826449/lawmaker-wont-press-charges-in.html

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Seven Years and a $747 Billon in Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Iraq

http://www.alternet.org/world/146108/seven_years_and_a_%24747_billon_in_waste%2C_fraud_and_abuse_in_iraq

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Thousands Rally on Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq

by Matthew Barakat

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/20-5

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Report from Debra Sweet (World Can’t Wait) on Anti-War protests yesterday…

There were thousands marching in DC today. Read AP report. Watch the AP video. Watch the local video coverage:

You can read my speech here. After the march, several protesters were arrested in front of the White House, including Cindy Sheehan, Elaine Brower, and Matthis Chiroux. They are sitting in jail tonight and we are told they won't be arraigned until Tuesday.

In San Francisco, Daniel Ellsberg spoke to a rally of thousands on the importance of protest:

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War and is the subject of the recent documentary film, "The Most Dangerous Man in America," likened the protest and others like it around the country Saturday to a day of demonstrations organized against the conflict in Vietnam in 1969.
"They thought it had no effect," he told the crowd in San Francisco, referring to the 1969 protesters. "They were wrong."
Ellsberg said President Richard Nixon was planning to escalate the war around that time, but held off.

Watch Stephanie Tang speak at the rally.

In Los Angeles, thousands also marched, including a We Are Not Your Soldiers contingent carrying a banner signed by many more youth pledging to resist military recruiters.

More photos on our Flickr page and on Facebook.

Want to see more of this spread? Donate today, and ask your friends to help also. Find out more about our plans to take We Are Not Your Soldiers to students around the country, and how you can be involved

Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

http://www.worldcantwait.net/

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http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/03/20/thousands-rally-to-pull-troops-from-2-war-zones/

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

Please consider some time spent finding ways to do some rapid responding today?

Your progressive voice is needed! Please check out your local paper’s website for an item or two that motivates you…

Here at the Enquirer…the following link might offer some possibilities..

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

===========or, perhaps there’s something on the ‘news’ page?