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Mail for all (from Real Change News)

A class-action lawsuit filed last week in federal court against the United States Postal Service could give homeless people the right to a basic service other people take for granted: free and easily accessible mail.

its black history month . . . has the headlines covered anything like this?

Story Filed: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:22 PM EST

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- More than 30 years after three men were killed by state police during a civil rights protest, Gov. Jim Hodges said Thursday the state still is healing.

Hodges, a first-term Democrat, became the first South Carolina governor to participate in a ceremony honoring the victims.

did this get any coverage?

Thursday, February 8 7:05 PM SGT

US military chief apologizes for calling Okinawa leaders "nuts"

TOKYO, Feb 8 (AFP) -

The US military chief on Okinawa apologized Thursday after labelling local leaders "nuts" and "wimps" for demanding a reduction in the sub-tropical Japanese island's huge number of US forces.

Lieutenant General Earl Hailston visited Okinawa governor Keiichi Inamine and prefectural assembly chairman Kokichi Iramina to deliver a letter of apology, prefectural spokesman Atsushi Shinzato told AFP.

needs US spin . . . pretty short though. when did Fox meet with Bush?

World: Rebel sympathizers protest military occupation of Chiapas village

By ALEJANDRO RUIZ, Associated Press

GUADALUPE TEPEYAC, Mexico (February 10, 2001 8:48 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Zapatista rebel sympathizers protested Saturday and demanded an end to the military occupation of a jungle hamlet that rebel forces once used as their headquarters in the southern state of Chiapas.

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Kissinger outlasts protest at W&M

BY ANDREW PETKOFSKY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Feb 11, 2001

WILLIAMSBURG - Some student protesters unfurled a sign saying "Kissinger Kills" and others chanted "Not our chancellor!" as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was introduced yesterday to deliver his first speech as chancellor of the College of William and Mary.

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Monday, February 12 5:41 PM SGT

Two Palestinians killed as Sharon launches diplomatic offensive in US

JERUSALEM, Feb 12 (AFP) -

Two Palestinians were killed in renewed bloodletting Monday as Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon prepared to send off a team of envoys to the United States in a
diplomatic offensive to explain his tough line on the peace process.

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Story Filed: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:56 AM EST

Xinhua News Agency

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb. 9) XINHUA - Malaysia's International Muslim Action Network (IMAN) Friday launched an anti-American campaign, calling for the boycott of all products and

services from America in a protest against America's support for Israel oppression against the Palestinians.

IMAN, a non-governmental organization base in Pulau Pinang, northern Malaysia, has published more than 100,000 pamphlets listing down the goods and services from America

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Saturday, 10 February, 2001, 22:33 GMT BBC News

Ethiopian women march against violence

Singing and waving banners, Ethiopian women finished a week of protests against rising domestic violence at a rally in Addis Ababa's Meskel Square.

In the first public act of its kind in Ethiopia, more than 1,000 women marched to the office of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and to parliament and delivered petitions demanding more police protection and harsher sentences for offenders.

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Monday, 12 February, 2001, 13:14 GMT

Drugs firms 'waging war' on poor

The international aid group, Oxfam, has accused the global pharmaceutical industry and western governments of waging what it calls an undeclared drugs war against the world's poorest countries.

The organisation says developing countries must be allowed to make cheap copies of drugs to treat diseases such as Aids, respiratory tract infections and childhood diarrhoea.

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Monday, February 12 8:51 AM SGT

British animal-rights protests end with 87 arrests

LONDON, Feb 11 (AFP) -

British police arrested 87 animal-rights activists on Sunday during synchronised and sometimes violent protests against animal testing laboratories throughout southern England,

authorities said.

Of those arrested, 81 were arrested at the Bayer research laboratory in Stoke Poges, northwest of London, when demonstrators smashed windows, upturned cabinets and