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Consent Decree 101: The Mis-education of Champaign’s Black Students

Posted on 02/25/2007 by Brian Dolinar

More than 50 years after the landmark case of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954), this country still has not fulfilled the dream of desegregation. In fact, there are many indications that the country is seeing a trend toward … Continue reading →

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Colonized Wombs? Reproduction Rights and Puerto Rican Women

Posted on 12/25/2006 by Antonia Darder

Following World War II, Puerto Rico and the rest of the Third World emerged as a problem for U.S. philanthropists, foreign policy makers, and social scientists to solve. A major concern of the times was that Third World populations were … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years After Iran-Contra, Washington’s Role in Nicaragua Still a Scandal

Posted on 12/25/2006 by Mark Weisbrot

Imagine Osama bin Laden visiting the United States ten or 15 years from now, telling Americans who to vote for if they want to avoid getting hurt. It would never happen, but in Nicaragua something very similar happened in the … Continue reading →

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Observing the Nicaraguan Elections: How the U.S. Has Overstepped its Bounds Once Again

Posted on 12/25/2006 by Erica Throneberg

On November 5th, the Nicaraguan people went to the polls in huge numbers and voted for a new President, Vice President, and deputy representatives to various legislative bodies. After the ballots were counted in this historic election, Daniel Ortega was … Continue reading →

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“Escualidos for Chavez?“ What I Saw at the Venezuelan Election

Posted on 12/25/2006 by Robert Naiman

AN OVERWHELMING WIN By now you surely know that President Chavez won re-election in Venezuela for another six-year term. What you might not realize is how decisive the victory was. Chavez won 63% of the vote, which was more than … Continue reading →

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Community Court Watch Corner

Posted on 12/25/2006 by Brian Dolinar

On December 1, Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice held a press conference to pre-empt a plea bargain expected to be finalized for Sgt. William Alan Myers, accused of illegally using a Taser on an inmate in the Champaign County … Continue reading →

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The U.S., Israel, and Lebanon: Historical Roots and Patterns of Conflict

Posted on 11/25/2006 by David Green

The destructive and lethal forces unleashed this past summer by the United States and Israel upon Lebanon are not surprising in light of their historical roots in at least four patterns of conflict: First, the unwillingness of Israel and its … Continue reading →

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New York City IMC Responds to the Death of Brad Will

Posted on 11/25/2006 by New York City IMC

New York City Brad Will was killed on October 27, 2006, in Oaxaca, Mexico, while working as a journalist for the global Indymedia network. He was shot in the torso while documenting an armed, paramilitary assault on the Popular Assembly … Continue reading →

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Religion and Politics in the Middle East

Posted on 11/25/2006 by Valerie Hoffman

In 1979, a popular revolution in Iran toppled a ruthless dictator backed by the United States and replaced him with a regime that gave supreme political authority to a traditionally-trained scholar of Islam, something unprecedented in Islamic history. Suddenly Islam … Continue reading →

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No Room for Neutrality in Net Neutrality

Posted on 10/25/2006 by Victor Pickard

Imagine the Internet as being like cable television. To access websites of your choosing, you’ll have to pay extra to your Internet service provider (ISP). To put up your own website or blog, you’ll have to pay an additional surcharge … Continue reading →

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Torture Exposed in the Champaign County Jail

Posted on 10/25/2006 by Brian Dolinar

Many are now familiar with the infamous story of Sergeant Jon Burge in Chicago. In 2002, it was found that Sgt. Burge and his underlings had tortured over 150 Black men in Chicago jails. Burge had used a hand-cranked army … Continue reading →

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Kids Art Space in the UCIMC

Posted on 10/25/2006 by Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

On October 21st, 2006 the Independent Media Center is proud to announce the Opening of the Kids Art Space, located in the north-east corner of the sunroom. The KAS features lockers, cubbies spaces, a myriad of art supplies, and a … Continue reading →

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Radio in the Lenca Context

Posted on 09/25/2006 by Bill Taylor

On May First my daughter, Adrienne Bauer and I squeezed ourselves into airplane seats headed for a quick visit to a place we had called home in the early 90’s. We were going to Honduras—it’s in Central America, due south … Continue reading →

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Guatamala’s Indigenous People Continue to Fight For Land Rights

Posted on 09/25/2006 by Erica Throneberg

This December, ten years will have passed since Peace Accords were signed between the government of Guatemala and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG). This document was the formal means to ending 36 years of bloody civil war in the … Continue reading →

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Arrogance and Impunity–Coca-cola in India

Posted on 09/25/2006 by Amit Srivastava

In what can only be characterized as arrogance and impunity, we are learning that Coca-Cola and Pepsi have continued to sell soft drinks in India with dangerously high levels of pesticides—three years after even the government of India confirmed that … Continue reading →

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Busy Week for Community Courtwatch

Posted on 09/25/2006 by Brian Dolinar

Courtwatchers have been busy keeping an eye on the criminal justice system in Champaign County. Again it is volunteers, individuals doing their duty as citizens, that have done more work than paid staff in the mainstream media or salaried public … Continue reading →

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The Injustice System in Champaign County

Posted on 09/25/2006 by Belden Fields

Recent events have convinced me that the justice system in Champaign County is skewed against the African American population and should be more properly referred to as an injustice system. There have been excessive charges against blacks, retaliatory prosecution and … Continue reading →

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Homeopathy–The Choice of More Women

Posted on 07/25/2006 by Barbara Raska Antisdel

  uses extremely small doses of substances prepared in a special way to re-vitalize a person’s health. The choice of the medicine, referred to as a “remedy,” is individualized for each patient according to the symptoms and characteristics of … Continue reading →

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Reducing Post-Partum Depression the Village Way

Posted on 07/25/2006 by Marcia Zumbahlen

   the country was shocked to learn how Andrea Yates killed her children during an episode of post partum psychosis. The “eye for an eye” folks wanted her electrocuted. The “spare the rod, spoil the child” folks wanted … Continue reading →

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You Were Told What!? A short history on the refusal of insurance plans and pharmacists to fill prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception

Posted on 07/25/2006 by Kathy Spegal

  , women have been at the mercy of insurance carriers and employers who have refused to include contraceptive options as part of their health plans. Women who have been prescribed birth control for medicinal purposes other than contraception … Continue reading →

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