Excluded veterans will walk in Martin Luther King Jr. event, possibly Veterans Day Parade

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An adviser to Lt. Gov. John Garamendi—a veteran whose grandfather was a Superior Court judge in Long Beach—says that pacifist veterans groups excluded from last November’s Long Beach Veterans Day Parade in North Long Beach will likely be [...]

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The decision by organizers of the Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade to exclude veterans groups that oppose the war in Iraq has been in heavy news rotation the past couple of days. We’ve run nearly 10 stories about the affair and its been the Press-Telegram’s lead story the past two days.
So, it was a bit [...]

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Veteran’s Day Parade: Your chance to find out what all [...]

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The Supreme Court sided with “private” parade organizers in 1995 decision

Anti-war groups seeking to participate in Saturday’s Veterans Day Parade in Long Beach will have to contend with a 1995 Supreme Court decision that found private organizers of a St. Patrick’s Day parade in that city could not be compelled to allow gay-rights activists to [...]

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