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Thursday, Sept. 4, 2003 11:41 a.m. EDT Bustamante Backer Defends Racist Slogan A leading backer of California recall race candidate Cruz Bustamante is defending the Latino supremacist group MEChA and its slogan, "For the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing." Rep. [Xavier] Becerra, D-Calif., complained Wednesday night that MEChA critics were engaging in McCarthyite tactics. "This is like the 1960s where people were accusing the Southern Leadership Christian Conference of being a communist organization," he told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." Bustamante, a MEChA member in his college days, has been under fire on the issue since...

View From The Left: Peace KooksBy Michelle GoldbergSalon.com | October 17, 2002 On Oct. 6, an antiwar movement seemed to have blossomed in New York. A sea of people -- newspaper estimates ran from 10,000 to 20,000 -- filled Central Park's East Meadow to protest a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq. And yes, there were the usual suspects, like the girl from the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade who donned a kaffiyeh and hurled red-faced imprecations against capitalist tyranny. But there were many more average people, the kind who don't usually spend their sunny Sunday afternoons demonstrating against government policy --...