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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LfEdVzuekjQtDI1qQnUqo832KzLbdcAD"><strong>AP Goes Off The Deep End With Deficit Scold David Walker</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dean Baker, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> The Associated Press' profile of David Walker, the former head of the Government Accountability Office, failed as a journalistic investigation instead acting as a fluff piece that ignores the reality of the national deficit.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZpHPWYwV%2BFBtpCA7QHmsac32KzLbdcAD"><strong>A Letter, A March, A Dream: 1963 Retold</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Staff, Making Contact:</strong> National Radio Project: Fifty years after the March on Washington, historians are still defining the legacy of the civil rights movement. Columnist Reverend Byron Williams makes the case that 1963 was the pivotal year for American culture and speaks about his book, <em>1963: The Year of Hope & Hostility.</em></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pV6VqpBwLlMEUHlcbl1Ib9oa0L%2FqinTt"><strong>Private Gain to a Few Trumps Public Good for the Many</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog:</strong> As privatization continues to become more prevalent, the idea of the "Public Good" continues to fade from the social consciousness taking with it any hope of equality.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Wxe4duyJDC3Uw3aggtTjHs32KzLbdcAD"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SMSYty9OJdRgyPMJzFh0DM32KzLbdcAD"><strong>Treaty Obligations Are Not "Discretionary Spending:" Will Congress Abandon the Promises?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Staff, Friends Committee on National Legislation:</strong> "It means that, in spite of the treaties, in spite of the solemn exchanges of land for promises of food, health care, education, and security – the federal government is once again confiscating the little that has been left to some of the poorest people in this country," writes FCNL on Native Americans in the US.</p>
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