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Excerpt from 11 January 1944 message to Congress on the State of the Union It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure. This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - With the U.S. government moving closer to war with Iraq, thousands of demonstrators, some pushing strollers and walking dogs, took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles Saturday to voice their protest. Organizers put the turnout at 20,000. But police offered a much smaller estimate of 3,000. There were no reports of arrests or incidents, said Officer Grace Brady, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Additional demonstrations, timed to coincide with the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, are scheduled to take place in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., next Saturday.

LOS ANGELES, SATURDAY, JAN 11 NO WAR ON IRAQ! MASS MARCH AND RALLY. Please join the massive contingent for Immigrant Rights at the Jan. 11 March and Rally to Stop the War. Look for the giant yellow banner at Olympic and Broadway in Los Angeles and march for peace and justice for all: JOIN THE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS CONTINGENT ON JAN. 11-- STOP ILLEGAL MASS ARRESTS OF IMMIGRANTS! DEFEND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS! 11:00 AM: Gather at Olympic and Broadway 12:00 Noon: March to the Downtown Federal Building (Los Angeles Street at Temple) 1:00 PM Rally Downtown Federal Building The Bush administration is...