Nov. 12 rally. Members of the Oregon DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) Coalition shared their stories during the “Defend DACA, Home Is Here” rally on Nov. 12. An estimated 250 people gathered to call on the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s attempts to terminate the DACA program. Organizers . . .
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Hundreds gathered here on Nov. 20 to remember Tamir Rice. Cleveland cops had brutally shot and killed the 12-year-old boy on Nov. 22 five years ago. It happened just seconds after officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback pulled up to see the youngster playing with a BB gun. When Tamir’s . . .
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Nov. 15 — Harvard College Act on a Dream (AOD) launched the #CrimsonListen campaign today with a petition, boycott, teach-in and surprise action at a ceremony intended to welcome new leadership at the Harvard Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper. Sign in middle of door reads “Stop endangering undocumented students.” Undocumented and . . .
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No to charters, resegregated schools in Little Rock, Ark. Teachers in the Little Rock School District went on strike Nov. 14 to protest the Arkansas Board of Education’s vote in October to no longer recognize their union, the Little Rock Education Association, when the contract expired Oct. 31. Educators warn . . .
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A dozen people demonstrated Nov. 19 against the U.S.-backed coup in Bolivia on the campus of West Liberty University near Wheeling, W.V. Members of Students for Democracy and Socialism, Ohio Valley Peace, Industrial Workers of the World, Serve the People and Workers World Party participated in the events. Wheeling, W.V., . . .
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On Nov. 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter were murdered by a special battalion of Salvadoran soldiers whose leadership was trained at the School of the Americas housed at Ft. Benning in Columbus, Ga. This atrocity was just one of many being committed by the . . .
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