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Todd Gitlin writing for TomPaine.com notes how the Right is "Swift-Boating" Cindy Sheehan and recalls how Anti-War protesters became more and more unpopular as the anti-war movement went mainstream near the close of the Vietnam war. Is there a smarter way for the Anti-war Movement to build momentum for their cause without alienating it?...

Bill Weaver and Irasema Coronado report in from day one of Luis Posada Carriles' immigration hearing today. Posada Carriles, a longtime Cuban exile activist, CIA asset, and accused terrorist seeks political asylum in the United States...

With search and rescue operations underway in multiple states and many communities facing massive reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, state governments are relying significantly on aid from the National Guard. But with the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of Guard members available at home has been slashed....

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 - For more than a year, federal drug officials have insisted that their repeated delays in deciding whether to approve over-the-counter sales of a morning-after contraceptive have nothing to do with abortion politics....

Thirty-five years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, some 25,000-30,000 people, mostly Mexican Americans, marched through the heart of the East Los Angeles barrios protesting the war in Vietnam. It was the largest Mexican American political demonstration ever until Cesar Chavez’s funeral in 1993. It was a time when young working-class Chicanos and Latinos were beginning to refuse to go to Vietnam, and those on the front lines, along with African American and white soldiers, began to resist the Pentagon’s...

Crawford, Texas (August 29, 2005): Wrapping up a busy final weekend, the Rev. Al Sharpton closed a moving interfaith prayer service yesterday morning, Genevieve and Peter were married in the afternoon, and actor Martin Sheen joined us for early evening events....

"The problem is that the US supported the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. A paragraph of that treaty imposes the obligation of negotiations on ending the nuclear arms race.. An empire doesn't seem worried about justice and law.."...

About two thousand people converged in Crawford yesterday for the “Cindy Doesn’t Speak for Me” rally. “Gold Bless America, God Bless the Troops, and God Bless President Bush” was the theme of the day. However, in a odd turn of events, and despite repeated pleadings that “we are on your side, we are on the right,” the rally turned on conservative Protest Warriors....

Greens announce an online petition against the war, criticize Democratic Party support for Bush's Iraq policy....

This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Emmett Till. He was beaten and shot near Money, Mississippi after he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk. We speak with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp who produced "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" and University of Missouri-Columbia professor Clenora Hudson-Weems....