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Rights group: Trans people could be ‘collateral damage’ in voter ID battle
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) warns transgender Americans that stringent new voter ID laws could exclude them from casting a ballot this November. Advocates urge transgender people to check and make certain that they are registered and that they have the proper ID needed in their state to…
Sikhs say attacks on community are ‘collateral damage’ of 9/11
Harjit Jeji Shergill would not go so far as to say there was an inevitability to the murder of six Sikh worshipers at his local temple, but after years of people venomously calling him “Bin Laden” he feared it might come to this somewhere in America. As Oak Creek’s Sikh…
Obama: ‘Protesters are giving voice’ to Americans’ frustrations
During a White House news conference Thursday, President Barack Obama said that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were proof people wanted to see tighter financial regulations. “Obviously, I’ve heard of it,” the president said of the protests. “I’ve seen it on television. I think it expresses the frustrations that the…
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