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Thousands Take to the Streets Against War and the Right-Wing Agenda

By Dan DiMaggio and Ty Moore

From September 1-4, St. Paul, Minnesota was home to the Republican National Convention - and four days of protests and police repression.

Though, the Republican Party has controlled the presidency for the past eight years and pursued a ferocious pro-corporate agenda, they attempted to use St. Paul as a staging ground to remake themselves as a party of change. At the convention, the Republicans sought to distance themselves from Bush, whose approval rating is the lowest of any president in U.S. history and who did not even attend the convention.
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By Laura Madsen, YAWR activist

This fall, anti-war activists will be launching the ARMY OF NONE campaign, to counter military recruiters in Twin Cities schools.
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Vote Nader, Build an Alternative to the Two Corporate Parties!
by Canyon Lalama
After eight long years of war, economic crisis, corruption and lies, George W. Bush will be leaving the White House as the most unpopular president in U.S. history. Many are looking forward to the end of the Bush regime and hoping that Barack Obama will turn the country around.
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