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House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after allowing anti-choice Dems to bar access to abortion in new programs.
John Nichols
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» Editor's Cut
Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your
questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion
Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
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» The Dreyfuss Report
Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
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» Act Now!
Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
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» Altercation
Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman
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The Ohio Empowerment Coalition, a coalition of low-income people and grassroots groups united to fight for economic and social justice for the poor, is holding a Speakout for Economic Justice to End Poverty in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. To be held the weekend before Ohio's March 4 primary we are inviting all presidential candidates to hear the concerns of low-income voters on issues of jobs, housing, health care, kinship care/safety net supports and public education. The Speak Out is sponsored by many organizations, including Contact Center/Benefit Rights Advocacy Group (BRAG), OhioVOTES, Intercommunity Justice & Peace Center, Clevelanders United Against Poverty (UCAP), Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor (STOP), Sojourners, UHCAN-OH, Education Organizing Project-Cincinnati of Center for Community Change, among others. New Prospect Baptist Church, 1829 Elm St. Contact: Lynn Williams, 513-381-4242 or 1-877-862-5179 (toll-free).
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Join us for a release party for Kahlil Al Mustafa's spoken word/hip hop CD Counter Intelligence. With Live DJ. Al Mustafa is the 2002 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion and the author of two collections of poetry: Grandma's Soup (February 2001) and I'm Crying Everyone's Tears (August 2002). He is currently working on a collection of poems, Chivalry is Dead, a conversation on gender, sexism, masculinity and romance. Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15; free for Brecht Forum subscribers. 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune streets). 212-242-4201; e-mail: brechtforum at brechtforum.org.
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