Since 1998, the Higher Education Act (HEA) has contained a provision that denies federal financial aid to student applicants who have drug-related convictions, including possession of marijuana. According to the U.S. Department of...
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15 March 2004
This excerpt is from a forthcoming book by Staughton Lynd, who requested portions of his manuscript be included in issues of the Free Press. Lynd, along with his wife Alice, have a lifetime of social justice activism. Staughton directed...
15 March 2004
Asking for an INDEPENDENT Investigation into the Intelligence on Iraq. Almost a year has passed since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and we now know that the major justification for war (Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction) no...
15 March 2004
Bush is privatizing America. Most
Americans, and their elected
representatives in government believe that the free market system provides superior results in education through competition, supports the best doctors and health care in...
15 March 2004
Last year, President Bush formed a Commission
for Assistance to a Free Cuba, a private group of government officials
who have been meeting in secret to take our failed Cuba policy and send
it even further in the wrong direction. With...
15 March 2004
Even though I’m not registered to vote (I think that will be my next project – voting rights for pigs), I do have an opinion on the elections this year. It’s intense primary season as I write this, and I did some digging to see how the...
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