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Denouncing the draft

NoDraftNoWay.org NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - There was a conference on military draft resistance and counter-recruiting here Apr. 16 at Public School 41 in Manhattan. On Apr....

Activists fighting return of death penalty in Puerto Rico

Court ruling encourages death row opponents (FCN, 03-22-2005) (FinalCall.com) - Activists in Puerto Rico are angry about President George Bush's attempts to bring the death...

AIDS providers get funding reprieve

D.C. AIDS providers protest de-funding (FCN, 03-17-2005) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - HIV/AIDS providers, stunned by the city's recent de-funding of their programs, received a reprieve...

37 years after Dr. Martin Luther King’s murder, Black leaders discuss the time and what Black people must do

CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Many of the civil rights gains that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid his life on the line to achieve...

Zero tolerance: From the schoolhouse to the jailhouse

(FinalCall.com) - In Philadelphia, Penn., a 10-year-old girl was handcuffed and taken to a police station and held for eight hours because she...

Saving the Queen Mother Moore International House

(FinalCall.com) - For more than 20 years, the Queen Mother Moore International House has provided a range of services to the Black community...

Activists won’t keep silent on police brutality

Peoples Organization for Progress (POP Website)Police brutality: Alive and well in America (FCN, 03-26-2005) NEWARK (FinalCall.com) - Torrential rains could not stop the Newark-based Peoples...

Johnnie Cochran: A vanguard for the powerless

CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Champion legal defender Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. succumbed to a brain tumor at his home March 29, and throughout...

Broken coalition, resistance and dwindling recruitment mark two-year anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq

George W. Bush; A dangerous president (FCN, 02-01-2005)Al Jazeera Special Report: Iraq Under Occupation (Al Jazeera)Neo-Cons and the Motives of the Iraq War (Minister Louis...

Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war

Army recruiters: No Latino left behind (FCN, 11-24-2004)Conscientious objector status 101 (FCN, 07-21-2004)‘Hell no, we won't go!' (FCN/George Curry, 04-05-2005) WASHINGTON - The war...